We would like to highlight several local organizations that may inspire participation.

Redwood City Catholic Worker House is in need of supplies




Girls to Woman  provides media and visual arts workshop, leadership training,summer program, ongoing, gardening, nutrition and environmental education, after school programs for young women of color in East Palo Alto. Information (here)

Weekly Bulletin 

Fr. Bruce Wilkinson shares his experience in America, the Jesuit magazine

I watched the parents of Daunte Wright speak about the moments that led to his killing by a police officer. I could have been Daunte Wright. In 1980, I was pulled over in Worthington, Ohio driving with Illinois license plates. The officer asked why I was driving through the town at 11:30 at night and told me that I had been driving erratically. I told him that we were on our way to a 24-hour restaurant and that we were students at the nearby seminary. He then looked into the car and saw two white men, my fellow seminarians, and handed me a warning slip that said “single Black occupant in vehicle during suspicious behavior.” My friends couldn’t believe that “we” had been pulled over for doing nothing. They just didn’t understand. But I did.  click (here)

Fr. Bryan Massingale discusses vindication in the Chauvin verdict in NCRonline. Read (here)

Rudy Bahr, Prayers to Kay Williams,
Rosanna Madrigal's special intentions and for Fr. Russ Roide who passed away  4/13/21.

• Redemptorist Fr. Marcel Okwara said racism and police brutality need to be an ongoing conversation for Catholics (here)

"I want all Christians to stand up and be counted," Fr. Okwara said. "I think this is what Jesus would have wanted." Okwara and Redemptionist Fr. John Schmidt of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, only 2 mi from the incident, talk to NCR about the April 11 police killing of Daunte Wright.

• Joe Biden is living and acting on Catholic social justice teaching (here)

President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill follows in the footsteps of his American Rescue Plan. It is an example of Catholic social doctrine in action. Taken together, they represent not only a repudiation of Reaganomics, but the introduction of a new kind of social policy we could and should call Fratelli Tutti economics!
 

• Major Catholic funders and power brokers spearhead voter suppression efforts

Christopher White writes in NCR online 4/8/21: Conservative Catholic philanthropists and pro-life leaders are key players behind efforts to limit voter access in a number of states, where such suppression could obstruct the right to vote for economically marginalized populations and racial minorities for years to come. (here)

• Christian Nationalism is promoted under the guise of “Religious Liberty"

Katherine Stewart writes on 4/9/21: in America today, these assaults on the separation of church and state are in fact part of a larger attack on democracy and the rule of law itself. 
(here)