The Callifornia Catholic Bishops Conference has urged Governor Gavin Newsom to increase aid to immigrants and low-wage residents in California while the pandemic is ongoing.

The funding is part of a $484 billion emergency relief measure developed in response to the economic fallout caused by the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is offering $1,000 grants to each parish that commits to supporting the program with the funds to be used to purchase groceries.

Loving God, in the midst of our world’s—your world’s—coronavirus crisis, we beg to bring before you the brave women and men who are closest to the sick and suffering.

A conversation with Jennifer Overton, the regional director for West Africa for Catholic Relief Services

“We cannot let this moment of pandemic, which calls us all to unity as God’s children, become the occasion for further prejudice, exclusion and injustice.”