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Diocesan Announcements and State Policy Updates
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 As the situation with COVID-19 remains fluid, it's challenging to keep up with the latest updates. The California Catholic Conference is now posting the latest policy updates each day as well as updates on announcements by arch/diocese in California.
Each policy update includes the latest information from Governor Newsom's daily press briefings on the state's response to COVID-19. It also includes information from the federal level affecting California residents.
The CCC is also posting a timeline of events, updates and other information by arch/diocese. These include pastoral messages, live streaming liturgies, information on Catholic cemeteries, and more.
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Online Giving for Parishes, Dioceses and Social Services
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Even in the midst of today's turmoil and uncertainty, the Church and other charities still need our financial support.
Dioceses and parishes are meeting the challenge by scaling up assistance programs for emergency food delivery, organizing volunteers to reach out to shut-ins and developing new ways of evangelizing in the digital age.
We all play a role in making sure our Church ministries continue during and after the coronavirus threat ends.
In "normal" times, the Sunday envelop is part of our Catholic culture and handing a nearby little one something to put in the collection basket is not only fun but teaches young ones the importance of caring for others.
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Catholics Gear Up for Emergency Needs
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 For California's approximately 5 million food-insecure families, the continuation of food assistance programs during the COVID-19 crisis is vital.
In partnership with the Diocese of San Diego, Catholic Charities has created the Emergency Food Distribution Network to distribute food to those in need as a safe, effective, and reliable manner that complies with COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Through drive-thru food pantries and digital choice home-delivered food package pick-ups from distribution sites each week. Click here for more information on San Diego area locations.
In Los Angeles, the Office of Life, Justice and Peace of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, in partnership with St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Knights of Columbus have launched Hearts to Serve, a hotline in support to all of those in need, especially the elderly, homebound, and pregnant women.
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U.S. Bishops' Pro-Life Activities Chairman on 25th Anniversary of The Gospel of Life
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Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities issued an announcement this week on the 25th anniversary of The Gospel of Life (Evangelium vitae).
"As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord on March 25, we also mark the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II's prophetic encyclical, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium vitae)," Archbishop Naumann said in the announcement. "Here, this saint provides a clear challenge to us: "With great openness and courage, we need to question how widespread is the culture of life today among individual Christians, families, groups and communities in our Dioceses. With equal clarity and determination, we must identify the steps we are called to take in order to serve life in all its truth (EV 95)."
Read more at USCCB.org.
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Colorado Ends Death Penalty
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Colorado became the 22nd U.S. state to abolish capital punishment this week. The three individuals currently on death row in the state will now have their sentences commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Colorado is also the third state in as many years to abolish capital punishment, as well as the third to stamp out the practice since the August 2018 revision to the Catholic Catechism which declared the death penalty "inadmissible" in all cases. All told, two-thirds of all states have either formally abolished capital punishment or otherwise have not carried out an execution in more than a decade.
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March 27, 2020
Vol. 13 No. 11
California Catholic Conference
En Español
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In the context of the pandemic that threatens human life and the global economy, today we reiterate the teaching of #EvangeliumVitae to transmit the culture of life to future generations: an attitude of solidarity, care, and welcome. #GeneralAudience
- @Pontifex
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Pope France's Prayer to Mary During the Coronavirus Pandemic
O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign of salvation and of hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesus' pain, keeping your faith firm.
You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need, and we are sure you will provide so that, as in Cana of Galilee, we may return to joy and to feasting after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, who has taken upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows to lead us, through the cross, to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.
Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
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Providence St. Joseph, a national, Catholic, health system, has published a comprehensive 
