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San Francisco, Oct. 17, 2020 _ The Archdiocese of San Francisco has established an ad hoc advisory Committee for Racial Reconciliation and Justice. Its first task will be to organize listening sessions around the archdiocese.

With Coptic Christians facing ongoing persecution in Egypt, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos have written a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to bring HR 49 to the House floor for a vote. The non-binding resolution notes that even with some improvements in the status of Coptic Christians, they continue to face violence, and do not have equal rights and opportunities in the predominantly Muslim country. Coptic Christians are about 10 million strong and are the largest Christian community in the Middle East.

Catholic Charities is dispensing CA Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants / Proyecto de Asistencia para Inmigrantes Afectados por la Pandemia de COVID-19 (DRAI) beginning May 18.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 _ A San Francisco ad agency, a crisis pregnancy non-profit, and more than a dozen parishes are volunteering their talents as the Archdiocese of San Francisco launches a new grocery delivery hotline to help those confined at home by health or age during the coronavirus pandemic. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone called the hotline “a wonderful initiative,” and encouraged parishes to get involved in a letter sent to pastors.

In California Superior Court on Feb. 21, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were arraigned on 10 felony counts including criminal eavesdropping and falsification of documents. They pleaded not guilty to nine and are appealing the 10th count. This comes on top of a November federal jury's award to Planned Parenthood of more than $2 million against the investigators of the trafficking aborted baby parts.

The prayer vigil outside of Planned Parenthood clinics begins Ash Wednesday in Redwood City and in San Francisco.

Safe injection sites are a flawed although well intentioned response to opioid drug overdose deaths. Creation of a safe injection site establishes public societal acceptance of illegal intravenous drug use to the detriment of the drug users, who are not only procuring their drugs illegally, but using them in a public space. Public acceptance of IV drug use is also harmful to the overall society, and particularly to young people who are finding their way in what is an often confusing society that already presents mixed messages about drug and alcohol abuse. The Archdiocese of San Francisco opposes establishment of safe injection clinics in San Francisco and opposes legislation that would allow them in California.