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- Jun 1, 2020
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Justice Dept. says California’s pandemic plan should open churches sooner
- May 21, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging the “unequal treatment of faith communities” in California’s coronavirus reopening plan, warning that continued restrictions on worship services threaten believers’ civil rights to practice their religion.
Newsom urged to provide more funds to immigrants, workers during pandemic
- Apr 24, 2020
California’s Catholic bishops have asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to increase aid to immigrants without documents and low-wage residents of the state “because the virus doesn’t know the difference between someone who has the right legal documents and those who do not.”
California sex abuse law likely to spur thousands of claims
- Oct 15, 2019
Thousands of lawsuits will be filed against alleged child molesters as well as the institutions that employed them under a new California law taking effect next year, attorneys predicted Monday.
California Catholics urged to pray for defeat of medication abortion bill
- Aug 1, 2019
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is urging Catholics in the archdiocese to join in a novena for the defeat of a “dangerous and unprecedented” bill requiring California State and University of California college health centers to provide medication for abortions.
‘Dangerous’ bill on seal of confession withdrawn before key hearing
- Jul 9, 2019
In a last-minute twist, a California bill that would have required priests to break the sacramental seal of confession was shelved by its sponsor amid a remarkable grassroots campaign mounted by the state’s Catholics, members of other faith groups, and religious liberty advocates from across the country.
Bishop Blaire dies; recalled for living by a simple code — ‘to serve’
- Jun 19, 2019
Retired Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton died June 18 after a prolonged illness. He died at his retirement residence at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Modesto. He was 77.
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