Catholic churches in California have been resuming baptism, First Communion and Mass services outdoors after a series of COVID-19 closures shut down indoor church services in most of the state.
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Under new California rules, LA Catholic schools will no longer be able to resume in-person classes
Private and public schools alike will not be allowed to reopen their campuses if they are located in counties that remain on the state’s monitoring list.
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We have a story to tell: Indigenous scholars, activists speak up amid toppling of Serra statues
California Native people prayed at a makeshift altar before activists took down the statue of Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan credited with spreading the Catholic faith but also seen as part of an imperial conquest.
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California bishops say protesters ‘failed the test’ of history in toppling Junipero Serra statues
While Serra is credited with spreading the Catholic faith across what is now California, critics say he was part of an imperial conquest that beat and enslaved Native Americans.
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Who is St. Junipero Serra and why are California protesters toppling his statues?
The statue of St. Junipero Serra is the latest to be either defaced or forcibly removed by people protesting against monuments that depict the country’s colonial and racist past.
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On L.A.’s Skid Row, Catholic Worker’s ‘Hippie Kitchen’ adjusts to coronavirus
Founded in 1970, Los Angeles Catholic Worker is modeled after the Catholic Worker movement started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1933 to relieve poverty.
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Trump’s California funding threat over abortion puts nuns in unexpected spot
In a Jan. 24 notice, the administration threatened to cut off federal health care funding if California didn’t comply with a law known as the Weldon Amendment.
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50 years later, Chicano Catholic activists recall their midnight Mass clash with police
Fifty years after a Catholic lay group protested for the rights of Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles, the people who participated then reflect today on how far the Church still needs to go in pastoral outreach to the poor and disadvantaged.
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Christians urge California governor to veto bill for abortion pill access at colleges
Christian organizations are urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would require the state’s public universities to offer abortion medication through campus health clinics.
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In Coachella Valley, Catholic Church ministers to indigenous Purépechas
Members of nonprofit Catholic missionary groups have traveled the Eastern Coachella Valley area, seeking to connect with the indigenous Purépecha community.