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by bcadmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Bishop Jaime Soto, California, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Sacramento, mass shooting, News | 0 |
Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, California, asked people to “invest” in being good neighbors and help restore peace after six people were fatally wounded in the worst mass shooting in California’s sixth largest city.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Bishop Jaime Soto, Featured, mass shooting, News, Sacramento, Shootings, U.S. & World News, Worst mass shooting in California | 0 |
Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, California, asked people to “invest” in being good neighbors and help restore peace after six people were fatally wounded in the worst mass shooting in California’s sixth largest city, which also left at least 12 people injured April 3.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 25, 2021 | Associated Press, Bishop Jaime Soto, California, Church in the US, Diocese of Sacramento, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News, St. Junipero Serra, Statues | 0 |
More than a year after protesters toppled a statue of a Spanish missionary on the grounds of the California Capitol, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on Friday to replace it with a memorial for the state’s Native Americans.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2021 | Bishop Jaime Soto, Catholic, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Migrants, News | 0 |
Immigrant advocates, including Catholic organizations, launched a campaign July 13 to provide legal aid those who may need it, in case Congress, under the Biden administration, approves some type of reform.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2020 | Bishop Jaime Soto, Catholic Church, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Agency, Church in the US, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dream Act, dreamers, immigrants and refugees, News, Trump administration | 0 |
A federal judge Dec. 4 said the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, after the program that protects qualifying young adult immigrants from deportation was suspended this summer by Chad Wolf, acting Homeland Security secretary.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2020 | Bishop Daniel Garcia, Bishop Jaime Soto, Bishop Oscar Cantú, California, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Monterey, Diocese of Sacramento, Diocese of San Jose, Natural disasters, News, wildfires | 0 |
Some of the few Masses available for Catholics in California’s Bay Area came to a halt the weekend of Aug. 22 as bishops urged parishioners to pray for one another, for firefighters, and to stay home as air quality diminished in some parts of the state because of some of the largest wildfires in California history.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2020 | Bishop Jaime Soto, California, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Sacramento, excommunication, News, Traditionalists | 0 |
A suspended priest in the Diocese of Sacramento has been automatically excommunicated because he continued to celebrate Mass despite being instructed not to do so by Bishop Jaime Soto, and he also has refused to acknowledge Pope Francis as head of the Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2020 | Bishop Jaime Soto, Diocese of Sacramento, excommunication, Father Jeremy Leatherby, Jeremy Leatherby, Latae sententiae, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, U.S. & World News | 0 |
A suspended priest in the Diocese of Sacramento has been automatically excommunicated because he continued to celebrate Mass despite being instructed not to do so by Bishop Jaime Soto, and he also has refused to acknowledge Pope Francis as head of the Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Bishop Jaime Soto, Catholic Church, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, dreamers, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, News | 0 |
Faith leaders and immigrant advocates have denounced the Trump administration’s plan to reject first-time applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, and limit DACA renewals to one-year extensions instead of two.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 6, 2020 | Bishop Jaime Soto, Bishop Soto, Looting, News, Sacramento, Sacramento Diocese, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, St. Junipero Serra, U.S. & World News | 0 |
By defacing and toppling a statue of St. Junipero Serra in Sacramento, protesters may have meant “to draw attention to the sorrowful, angry memories over California’s past,” but “this act of vandalism does little to build the future,” Bishop Jaime Soto said July 5.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 6, 2020 | Associated Press, Bishop Jaime Soto, California, California missions, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Diocese of Sacramento, News, Protests, St. Junipero Serra, Statues | 0 |
A statue of a Spanish missionary in downtown Sacramento, California has been toppled by demonstrators.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2020 | Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Asylum seekers, Bishop Jaime Soto, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Church, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, CLINIC, Committee on Migration, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, immigration laws, migrants and refugees, News, Trump administration, USCCB | 0 |
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and two other Catholic bishops criticized President Donald Trump’s April 22 executive order to temporarily restrict some forms of immigration during the pandemic, saying it could “fuel polarization and animosity.”
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