Welcome to the Nov. 13, 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 U.S. owes a moral obligation to the 700,000 Deferred Action Childhood Arrival (DACA) immigrants whose fate was argued Nov. 12 before the U.S. Supreme Court, said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez. The “failures” of the nation’s leaders in Washington to make “comprehensive reforms" to immigration policy “cut across party lines,” and date back to 1986 which was the last time Congress passed comprehensive immigration reform, wrote Gomez in a column published days before his election Nov. 12 as the first Hispanic president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ahead of the Nov. 12 oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court, the 67-year-old prelate said there were “no doubt” constitutional and legal questions “raised by DACA and how it was enacted.”
“But we need to be clear: The fate of these young adults should never have been in the courts in the first place,” the archbishop wrote in the Angelus, online news outlet of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. “And it would not be, if our leaders in Washington would simply set aside their political interests and come together to fix our nation’s broken immigration system.”
The court heard arguments on three separate appellate court rulings that have blocked President Donald Trump's 2017 order to end DACA -- a 2012 program created by President Barack Obama's executive order that has enabled about 700,000 qualifying young people, known as "Dreamers" to work, get health insurance, a driver's license and not face deportation. These young adults arrived in the U.S. as children without legal documentation. The House of Representatives passed legislation to legalize the DACA immigrants and it is stalled in the U.S. Senate.
“But we need to be clear: The fate of these young adults should never have been in the courts in the first place,” the archbishop wrote in the Angelus, online news outlet of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. “And it would not be, if our leaders in Washington would simply set aside their political interests and come together to fix our nation’s broken immigration system.”
The court heard arguments on three separate appellate court rulings that have blocked President Donald Trump's 2017 order to end DACA -- a 2012 program created by President Barack Obama's executive order that has enabled about 700,000 qualifying young people, known as "Dreamers" to work, get health insurance, a driver's license and not face deportation. These young adults arrived in the U.S. as children without legal documentation. The House of Representatives passed legislation to legalize the DACA immigrants and it is stalled in the U.S. Senate.
Parents do have rights about how and whether sex education is taught to their children in public school. Learn what your rights are as a parent, with tips on how to share with your child the Church's beautiful teachings about sexuality. In Spanish at All Souls Church on Nov. 17, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. All Souls is located at 315 Walnut Ave, South San Francisco.
This Catholic San Francisco story about a young man who spent the last months of his life ministering to the poor and homeless will warm your heart.