Welcome to the October 23, 2019 edition of Just 3 Things, the weekly social action newsletter of the Office of Human Life & Dignity. Here are a few of the important priorities, news and ideas of the week.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco's J.A. Gray is blogging daily from the federal district courthouse as David Daleiden, his colleagues and the Center for Medical Progress defend themselves against a civil suit for damages from Planned Parenthood et al. Daleiden's covertly shot videotapes of Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of aborted baby parts went viral and Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation say he violated their rights because he did not get their permission for the taping.
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We just have to say THANK YOU to all who attended and shared the news of the  annual White Mass and Blessing of Catholic Medical Professionals celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Friday, Oct. 18. The Mass was beautiful, well attended and just overall terrific. We are already thinking ahead to next year. We did run out of the specially blessed St. Luke medals, so any medical professional who attended the Mass and did not get a medal--please email us at lifeanddignity@sfarch.org and we will put one in the mail.

Tonight, beginning at 5 p.m., is the vigil for Cardinal William Levada. The funeral Mass is tomorrow, 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at St. Mary's Cathedral at 1111 Gough Street in San Francisco. We hope you can join us to pray for this priest and bishop who devoted himself to the Archdiocese of San Francisco for many years. He was a man who "blended orthodoxy with pragmatism", the National Catholic Register wrote.