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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It also releases survivors from any non-disclosure agreements they have been subject to and requires the archdiocese to publish a partial list of “credibly accused” offenders. Survivors and advocates have been calling for a full public account of clergy members who have been credibly abused for years, and until now, San Francisco has been the only diocese in the state that has not released such a list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Cordileone acknowledged that such a list exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, San Francisco’s diocese publishes a list of priests and deacons who are in good standing — which has been updated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020370/sf-archdiocese-quietly-removed-two-priests-accused-of-abuse-from-public-list-attorneys-say\">remove multiple priests accused of abuse\u003c/a> without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joelle Casteix, a clergy abuse survivor and advocate, said the settlement’s non-monetary demands are more far-reaching than previous agreements have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, what this settlement will begin to provide is the beginning of multi-generational healing for the men and women who deserve it so greatly, and the children who could possibly still be at risk if these changes were not made,” she said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966005\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A building on a city street with the words \"Archdiocese of San Francisco\" written over the entrance.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231020-Archdiocese-Priests-022-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seen on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nine survivors negotiated the settlement’s terms with Cordileone over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margie O’Driscoll, who said she was abused by a priest at Marin Catholic High School almost 50 years ago, described the process as “time consuming, emotionally fraught and a very difficult fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every survivor has carried this pain and shame along like a ball and chain for a very, very long time. Victims in the case have carried this even longer than I have, for more than 70 years — ashamed and confused about what happened, scorned by the archdiocese and sometimes not even believed by family and friends,” she said. “I think today, shame is going to change sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It is expected to have far-reaching consequences for the hundreds of cases against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland that have been tied up in bankruptcy proceedings for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It tells everyone, including the bishops and the Roman Catholic officials … and other survivors that society, as represented by a jury, is tired of this,” said attorney Rick Simons, the lead plaintiffs’ liaison counsel. “They are yelling that it’s time for change, it’s to make places safe again, and it’s time to recognize just how destructive sexual abuse of a child is, especially by a power figure such as a priest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bellwether case centered on a 61-year-old man who was repeatedly molested as a 10-year-old altar boy in Union City. He’s one of dozens who have brought cases against the Rev. Stephen Kiesle, who was first convicted of lewd conduct in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Diocese of Oakland does not dispute that the abuse occurred or that it failed to properly supervise Kiesle, who was defrocked in 1987 and sentenced to six years in prison in 2004 on additional molestation charges. Currently, he is incarcerated on a separate vehicular manslaughter conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim filed his case against Kiesle in 2019, after a change in state law temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse claims. In response, thousands of lawsuits alleging abuse dating back decades were filed against the Catholic Church and other religious institutions, the Boy Scouts of America, schools and nonprofit organizations. The Diocese of Oakland alone \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019043/youll-go-to-hell-if-you-tell-anyone-survivors-recount-childhood-sexual-abuse-at-oakland-diocese\">faces more than 350 such allegations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230727-Oakland-Diocese-Sexual-Abuse-MHN-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230727-Oakland-Diocese-Sexual-Abuse-MHN-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230727-Oakland-Diocese-Sexual-Abuse-MHN-05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230727-Oakland-Diocese-Sexual-Abuse-MHN-05-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cathedral of Christ the Light and Catholic Diocese of Oakland in Oakland on July 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Expecting potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in liabilities stemming from those cases, the diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957801/east-bay-priests-accused-of-abuse-still-active\">putting a legal hold\u003c/a> on most of the proceedings. Still, a handful were allowed to move to trial, serving as an indicator of how juries will respond to the allegations and decide on their consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is this case, and if necessary, a couple of other trials, will help everybody involved get ideas as to ranges of values for cases, and that in turn should help settle the many, many cases that have not yet been settled,” Simons told KQED before the verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had asked the jury to award the victim $18 million in damages, while the Diocese of Oakland had asked for a much smaller sum, around $400,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty much closer to my number than it is to theirs,” Simons said. “It helps everybody, and that’s a great feeling to know that through my client, a most special person, I brought a little bit of light into what has been a seven-year path of darkness in this litigation.”[aside postID=news_12080731 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260421-OAKLANDDIOCESEBELLWEATHER-07-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Diocese of Oakland said that it sought a global settlement of all of the lawsuits to “ensure a fair and equitable outcome for all survivors” and that awards like Wednesday’s “underscore the necessity of the bankruptcy process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict includes $12 million for past harm and an additional $4 million for future harm, said Simons, who represents about 80 plaintiffs in Northern California and serves as liaison counsel coordinating the interests of all plaintiffs in the complex litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the trial, the victim testified for hours, recounting the harrowing abuse to the jury. He said that for years he’d buried the trauma he was subjected to as a young boy, but the 10-year-old who’d experienced it “stays with me,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/04/20/oakland-diocese-catholic-abuse-lawsuit-kiesle/\">\u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simons echoed this sentiment, adding that his client has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder for decades. While attorneys for the diocese argued in court that the victim’s mental health couldn’t be entirely attributed to the abuse, pointing to other traumas in his past, a clinical psychologist hired by the victim’s attorney linked the mental health challenges to his childhood experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the jury has awarded the damages, they’ll not be collectible from the diocese directly due to an ongoing bankruptcy stay. Insurance coverage is not subject to the stay and could provide a source of compensation for victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the next of the bellwether cases moving to trial in Oakland is set to begin in June. Simons said that the hundreds that remain “are at the mercy of the bankruptcy system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:00:39] Her son has been taken from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:42] Taken by immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] Taken by immigration, deta detained. They’ve she’s given no information about it. She’s desperate. And so she’s wailing. But what do you say to her? You as a priest. Right. As a priest you say, I need to just h I need to hold the space with you. I need to cry with you. I need to just hold the space. And I ask people to come up and just kind of hold her in prayer. So they’re kind of h putting her hands on her shoulder and praying with her. I mean that’s all really you can kind of do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:10] Father John knows that faith leaders and houses of worship have an important role to play in moments like this. Moments of political and social chaos, where people are afraid, want to be consoled, and are seeking a sense of safety and community. He’s also someone who wrestles with the limits of his work at the church pulpit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:01:39] For me, I found it I needed more than the sacramental and the pastoral dimension of holding a person who is inconsolable. There has to also be about getting people to think about how are we building power in our neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] When President Trump began his second term, Father John committed himself to do more, taking his faith and the stories from people in his ministry with him to step up his community organizing. So today we sit with Father John Pedigo and talk with him about the role of faith leaders when immigrants are under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:02:33] My name’s Father John Pedigo. I’m the executive director of People Acting in Community Together, Pact. We’re at our Lady of Guadalupe Parish. It’s in the east side, the heart of East Side San Jose, in the former neighborhood called Sal Si Puedes, meaning “get out if you can” neighborhood. We call it now the Mayfair neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] What was it called?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] What is well Sal Si Puedes means that it was one of the last places in Santa Clara County to have pavement and sewage. It was former farm workers that are here and they didn’t really have the resources like other parts of San Jose. And so when it would rain, it would be this mud that you couldn’t get out. So they always say, Leave if you can, sal si puedes – get out if you can. When Dolores Huerta came here with Cesar Chavez – his organizing roots are here in San Jose East Side – that phrase Sal Si Puede they turn it around to say si se puede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066648\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural decorates the exterior of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, where Father Jon Pedigo has worked as a priest, at 2020 East San Antonio Street in San Jose on December 3, 2025. Father Jon Pedigo, a priest who has worked with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids and deportations, is leaving his full time job as a priest to be a full time organizer. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] I wanna step back and really like sort of help people to understand the particular community that we’re that we’re in, who you serve and and just like a little bit more about who you are. We’re in Mayfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] We’re in the Mayfair community, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] Mayfair community in East San Jose, predominantly immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] Primarily Spanish speaking monolingual community in East Side is a heart of the East Side and it has always been a place where Spanish speaking folks will come. So when I was a pastor here a few years ago, it was predominantly Mexican immigrants with a few Chicanos that were old farm worker families. So we have an English mass, but then we were getting at the Spanish Mass is a lot of new folks from Mexico. Then we started when I was here, we started to see more Central Americans. Now we’re seeing a lot more people from Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Salvador. So immigration reform has always been a huge issue here. Education of children has been a an another large issue in health. You know, public safety and health are our big issues of the people that are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:55] How long have you been sort of rooted in this community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:05:00] Late nineties maybe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] Okay, a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:05:02] This has been a long time. It’s been a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] I I don’t imagine most priests come into this work because of an interest in immigration, but how did how did that sort of happen for you? Was that always the case that immigration has been part of your work as a priest or\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:05:23] No, strangely no. When I first started, it was not an issue. So I was ordained in ninety-one. I was in Morgan Hill. We were just I was just working with the Spanish speaking community and it was English and English community and Spanish speaking community. And it was mostly just people wanting to just get along and be be part of the community. People were looking to integrate and not forget their roots. And over t just just a few short years, everything became really racialized. And it was like very anti-immigrant or anti-Mexican. And that just became more and more anti-immigrant as the years went on. So I was in it because I was working with the working partnerships, USA. I was one of the clergy members of their board and we did a lot of work with hotel workers, most were immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Our Lady of Guadalupe Church is located at 2020 East San Antonio Street in San Jose on December 3, 2025. Father Jon Pedigo, a priest who has worked with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids and deportations, is leaving his full time job as a priest to be a full time organizer. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:12] But why? Was it just ’cause it was your community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] Well, my mother asked the same question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Like why do immigration work on top of being a priest or\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] It’s you can’t really do at least when you’re working, at least as I was working, I didn’t really see a division between that, is because whatever the needs of the people are, that’s my needs. So whatever their worries are, those are my worries. Whatever their joys are, those are my joys. As a priest, we believe in the spiritual dimension of sacramental life, meaning that that it’s the divine is you disclose in ordinary, everyday things that we do. The the divine emerges from the hearts of the people. My first week at St. Catharine’s was I learned to do one-to-one. So first thing I did is like knock on doors and just get to know people. I I had a dinner and a dessert meeting with two different families. One was in Coyote Valley. There’s some farm labor camps that are in that area. And one of these small camps was a very wonderful, beautiful family that had tons of kids, they’re all super smart kids, wonderful kids, but they lived in this kind of farm worker house, which was like cardboard and plywood, and they had the most delicious food. They’re all laughing, they’re all talking, all the kids are present. It was really wonderful. Then I says, Okay, I gotta I gotta go to another one-to-one, which is up in the Holiday Lakes Estates. Which was in Morgan Hill. It’s a very nicey nice houses and go to this house. You had to walk over a bridge because they had a stream in front of their house. You go in, you take your shoes off, and you kind of meet the people. They had nice soft jazz playing. And then they their teenage and college age kids are sitting there very poised in nice shirts and you know, clothes, and they’re all sitting there around in a circle in the in the living room. So you gotta talk to the parents and they said, Oh, I want you to talk to young people. And it was it was very different experience because they had -.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Night and day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:08:18] Night and day. And I realized that that was for me showing that a lot of the Spanish speaking people and the English speaking people, though they were at the same table at the church, they really were in different dimensions of realities. My mom grew up as a farm worker in Hawaii. So I’m half Asian. And so I ex experienced some other racial issues that my mom would speak about when she would work for the government. She worked for the government for a while, and and I don’t think she was thinking that she was kind of raising me to be radical. These are just regular t you know, talk story. You know, in Hawaii, you just hang around talk story. And and just kind of the vibe and the feeling of what happens when you’re having conversations with people, getting to know them and and talk to them and hearing what their stories are. And I brought that into ministry with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:15] Was there a moment within this last year that you realized that this was gonna be a particularly chaotic, scary, frightening year for the community that you serve here in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:09:35] I would after the election, lead and facilitate healing circles here in the neighborhood, here in the in the Mayfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] What was that like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:46] It was humbling because people really, really, really fearful about what’s happening. So people in different organizations and different collectives, one of the schools, they asked if I would come in and just sort of work with the kids or work with the the staff or work with the population. So they can process some of their issues and what’s going on. What are you feeling? I had one small healing circle at Saint Lucy’s. It was requested by the teenagers because they’re they were concerned about their moms. And so what we did is we kind of sat everyone in a circle and then we just had people share briefly what’s going on. And then we broke into small groups and just said, All right, let’s pretend that we’re family. How are we having this conversation? Someone’s having to go, you know, back to wherever they’re coming from. How are you breaking the news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] Oh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] To each other and what are you all feeling? And so they break broke into small groups. Like there was someone that was assigned the role of a mother, and then three were assigned the roles of of a of of kids. It’s intense. It was very yeah, it was intense. It was real sad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Jon Pedigo poses for a portrait at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church where he has worked as a priest, at 2020 East San Antonio Street in San Jose on December 3, 2025. Father Jon Pedigo, a priest who has worked with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids and deportations, is leaving his full time job as a priest to be a full time organizer. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] But I’m getting the sense that in some ways you found your role as a priest a bit limiting, maybe in this for this moment that we’re in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Very limiting. I think there’s there’s very limiting. I think that some would say, No, that’s what you do as a priest. It’s all you and that is what is fully expected of you. For me, I found it I needed more than the sacramental and the pastoral dimension of holding a person who is inconsolable. And I said, God, I am right now working full-time in a parish. And I said, I there has to be something more to helping people make real decisions, to to to move them from, you know, isolation, desperation, and fear into realizing their own potential, their inner potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] Did you did you not feel like you could do that at the pulpit, on church? I could\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:11:52] I keep it I was I was getting push back from the English speaking community on it, and even the Spanish because it’s really difficult because people also want us to be comforted. I look at sacred text and I ask where is the liberation message here? What’s the where are people being freed? You know, listening and bringing people into community and that’s really important. But you need to also have a focus and an effort to take people to that next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] In March of this year, Father Jon got permission to leave his job as a parochial vicar at St. Lucie Parish in Campbell to work instead as a full-time executive director at the multi-faith community organization called PACT, or People Acting in Community Together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:53] How different is what you’re what you’re doing now with PACT with these other community organizations and religious organizations? How is it different than the work that you were doing as a priest in terms of helping the immigrant community here in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:13:09] So my work now is really focused on building power. That means that this craziness is gonna come to an end. And at the end of when it happens, are we gonna be in a position where we don’t repeat the same cycle to get us in this mess again? So the first thing is you gotta get people to kind of get to that place, to see themselves different. So that we do that in in our leadership development, and then we get them to start working with other people, to start organizing with other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:41] Any specific issues that you’re you’re pushing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:13:44] One of the big things is is universal legal representation. People without a lawyer are ten and a half times more likely to, you know, get out. And so all this illegality that’s going on, people not being presented with a warrant, there’s no way there to kind of bring this to the front. And so we’re working with members of the board of supervisors, working with members of the state senate, we’re looking with assembly members to you know look at this issue and how do we how do we structure it so it’s sustainable? The other piece is activating faith communities to be accompaniment teams. Accompaniment teams can do a bunch of different things, and we train different teams to handle different kinds of problems. And so there’s one team that works with a simple walking with people and helping them get connected to social services that they qualify for. Other forms of accompaniment can be going with somebody to court to an immigration check-in because you need to have people there showing that you have community support. It’s they’re less less likely to be taken away when you have a lot of people there. And so we’re now in the process of working with faith communities who have chosen to do one or more dimensions of accompaniment, and we’re opening that up even more. But it’s just basic organizing. And when you do that, with the belief that God wants you to do it, you’re you’re and there’s no stopping you because you’re already you’re already in a value based system where you believe the divine spark is the energy that’s moving you forward. Ain’t no one gonna stop you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:13] It is a lot more work than I’d ever expect a priest to do. But at the end of the day you’re still a priest. And i it seems like there is still a very important role that churches, houses of worship, faith leaders can play in this moment. How w what do you think is the role of a faith leader in times like these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:15:39] As a minister, as a priest, as a rabbi, we all understand there is a power in community, that people need to connect to each other, and that we need to support the weaker link. We need to challenge the missing link. We need to invite and heal. I think that if faith communities are going to be relevant in the future, they need to be sure they’re damn well sure they’re they’re convening people, they’re facilitating conversations. They are not trying to create litmus tests on who belongs to my network, who doesn’t belong to my network. People aren’t asking that question. They’re saying, who is going to be ready to be with me and stand up with me and help me? Churches need to do that as well. Synagogues need to do that, and all the different temples need to do that. Songhas need to do that. We all need to figure out how do we get on board together. Believing that there is a divine spark in every human being, believing in the power of the divine to shape, change, and transform the person and society, knowing that with the divine, with God, all things are possible.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:00:07] I was at St. Lucy’s and it was after Mass. And this lady, you know, comes up and says, I need a blessing, I need a blessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:17] This is Father John Pedigo. He’s a Catholic priest who’s worked as a pastor in the South Bay for decades, primarily in Spanish-speaking communities in Campbell, Morgan Hill, and San Jose. Communities that have now been hit hard by President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:00:39] Her son has been taken from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:42] Taken by immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] Taken by immigration, deta detained. They’ve she’s given no information about it. She’s desperate. And so she’s wailing. But what do you say to her? You as a priest. Right. As a priest you say, I need to just h I need to hold the space with you. I need to cry with you. I need to just hold the space. And I ask people to come up and just kind of hold her in prayer. So they’re kind of h putting her hands on her shoulder and praying with her. I mean that’s all really you can kind of do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:10] Father John knows that faith leaders and houses of worship have an important role to play in moments like this. Moments of political and social chaos, where people are afraid, want to be consoled, and are seeking a sense of safety and community. He’s also someone who wrestles with the limits of his work at the church pulpit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:01:39] For me, I found it I needed more than the sacramental and the pastoral dimension of holding a person who is inconsolable. There has to also be about getting people to think about how are we building power in our neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] When President Trump began his second term, Father John committed himself to do more, taking his faith and the stories from people in his ministry with him to step up his community organizing. So today we sit with Father John Pedigo and talk with him about the role of faith leaders when immigrants are under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:02:33] My name’s Father John Pedigo. I’m the executive director of People Acting in Community Together, Pact. We’re at our Lady of Guadalupe Parish. It’s in the east side, the heart of East Side San Jose, in the former neighborhood called Sal Si Puedes, meaning “get out if you can” neighborhood. We call it now the Mayfair neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] What was it called?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] What is well Sal Si Puedes means that it was one of the last places in Santa Clara County to have pavement and sewage. It was former farm workers that are here and they didn’t really have the resources like other parts of San Jose. And so when it would rain, it would be this mud that you couldn’t get out. So they always say, Leave if you can, sal si puedes – get out if you can. When Dolores Huerta came here with Cesar Chavez – his organizing roots are here in San Jose East Side – that phrase Sal Si Puede they turn it around to say si se puede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066648\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00002_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural decorates the exterior of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, where Father Jon Pedigo has worked as a priest, at 2020 East San Antonio Street in San Jose on December 3, 2025. Father Jon Pedigo, a priest who has worked with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids and deportations, is leaving his full time job as a priest to be a full time organizer. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] I wanna step back and really like sort of help people to understand the particular community that we’re that we’re in, who you serve and and just like a little bit more about who you are. We’re in Mayfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] We’re in the Mayfair community, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] Mayfair community in East San Jose, predominantly immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] Primarily Spanish speaking monolingual community in East Side is a heart of the East Side and it has always been a place where Spanish speaking folks will come. So when I was a pastor here a few years ago, it was predominantly Mexican immigrants with a few Chicanos that were old farm worker families. So we have an English mass, but then we were getting at the Spanish Mass is a lot of new folks from Mexico. Then we started when I was here, we started to see more Central Americans. Now we’re seeing a lot more people from Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Salvador. So immigration reform has always been a huge issue here. Education of children has been a an another large issue in health. You know, public safety and health are our big issues of the people that are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:55] How long have you been sort of rooted in this community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:05:00] Late nineties maybe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] Okay, a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:05:02] This has been a long time. It’s been a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] I I don’t imagine most priests come into this work because of an interest in immigration, but how did how did that sort of happen for you? Was that always the case that immigration has been part of your work as a priest or\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:05:23] No, strangely no. When I first started, it was not an issue. So I was ordained in ninety-one. I was in Morgan Hill. We were just I was just working with the Spanish speaking community and it was English and English community and Spanish speaking community. And it was mostly just people wanting to just get along and be be part of the community. People were looking to integrate and not forget their roots. And over t just just a few short years, everything became really racialized. And it was like very anti-immigrant or anti-Mexican. And that just became more and more anti-immigrant as the years went on. So I was in it because I was working with the working partnerships, USA. I was one of the clergy members of their board and we did a lot of work with hotel workers, most were immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00063_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Our Lady of Guadalupe Church is located at 2020 East San Antonio Street in San Jose on December 3, 2025. Father Jon Pedigo, a priest who has worked with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids and deportations, is leaving his full time job as a priest to be a full time organizer. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:12] But why? Was it just ’cause it was your community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] Well, my mother asked the same question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Like why do immigration work on top of being a priest or\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] It’s you can’t really do at least when you’re working, at least as I was working, I didn’t really see a division between that, is because whatever the needs of the people are, that’s my needs. So whatever their worries are, those are my worries. Whatever their joys are, those are my joys. As a priest, we believe in the spiritual dimension of sacramental life, meaning that that it’s the divine is you disclose in ordinary, everyday things that we do. The the divine emerges from the hearts of the people. My first week at St. Catharine’s was I learned to do one-to-one. So first thing I did is like knock on doors and just get to know people. I I had a dinner and a dessert meeting with two different families. One was in Coyote Valley. There’s some farm labor camps that are in that area. And one of these small camps was a very wonderful, beautiful family that had tons of kids, they’re all super smart kids, wonderful kids, but they lived in this kind of farm worker house, which was like cardboard and plywood, and they had the most delicious food. They’re all laughing, they’re all talking, all the kids are present. It was really wonderful. Then I says, Okay, I gotta I gotta go to another one-to-one, which is up in the Holiday Lakes Estates. Which was in Morgan Hill. It’s a very nicey nice houses and go to this house. You had to walk over a bridge because they had a stream in front of their house. You go in, you take your shoes off, and you kind of meet the people. They had nice soft jazz playing. And then they their teenage and college age kids are sitting there very poised in nice shirts and you know, clothes, and they’re all sitting there around in a circle in the in the living room. So you gotta talk to the parents and they said, Oh, I want you to talk to young people. And it was it was very different experience because they had -.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Night and day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:08:18] Night and day. And I realized that that was for me showing that a lot of the Spanish speaking people and the English speaking people, though they were at the same table at the church, they really were in different dimensions of realities. My mom grew up as a farm worker in Hawaii. So I’m half Asian. And so I ex experienced some other racial issues that my mom would speak about when she would work for the government. She worked for the government for a while, and and I don’t think she was thinking that she was kind of raising me to be radical. These are just regular t you know, talk story. You know, in Hawaii, you just hang around talk story. And and just kind of the vibe and the feeling of what happens when you’re having conversations with people, getting to know them and and talk to them and hearing what their stories are. And I brought that into ministry with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:15] Was there a moment within this last year that you realized that this was gonna be a particularly chaotic, scary, frightening year for the community that you serve here in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:09:35] I would after the election, lead and facilitate healing circles here in the neighborhood, here in the in the Mayfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] What was that like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:46] It was humbling because people really, really, really fearful about what’s happening. So people in different organizations and different collectives, one of the schools, they asked if I would come in and just sort of work with the kids or work with the the staff or work with the population. So they can process some of their issues and what’s going on. What are you feeling? I had one small healing circle at Saint Lucy’s. It was requested by the teenagers because they’re they were concerned about their moms. And so what we did is we kind of sat everyone in a circle and then we just had people share briefly what’s going on. And then we broke into small groups and just said, All right, let’s pretend that we’re family. How are we having this conversation? Someone’s having to go, you know, back to wherever they’re coming from. How are you breaking the news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] Oh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] To each other and what are you all feeling? And so they break broke into small groups. Like there was someone that was assigned the role of a mother, and then three were assigned the roles of of a of of kids. It’s intense. It was very yeah, it was intense. It was real sad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-sjpriestimmigration00035_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Jon Pedigo poses for a portrait at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church where he has worked as a priest, at 2020 East San Antonio Street in San Jose on December 3, 2025. Father Jon Pedigo, a priest who has worked with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids and deportations, is leaving his full time job as a priest to be a full time organizer. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] But I’m getting the sense that in some ways you found your role as a priest a bit limiting, maybe in this for this moment that we’re in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Very limiting. I think there’s there’s very limiting. I think that some would say, No, that’s what you do as a priest. It’s all you and that is what is fully expected of you. For me, I found it I needed more than the sacramental and the pastoral dimension of holding a person who is inconsolable. And I said, God, I am right now working full-time in a parish. And I said, I there has to be something more to helping people make real decisions, to to to move them from, you know, isolation, desperation, and fear into realizing their own potential, their inner potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] Did you did you not feel like you could do that at the pulpit, on church? I could\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:11:52] I keep it I was I was getting push back from the English speaking community on it, and even the Spanish because it’s really difficult because people also want us to be comforted. I look at sacred text and I ask where is the liberation message here? What’s the where are people being freed? You know, listening and bringing people into community and that’s really important. But you need to also have a focus and an effort to take people to that next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] In March of this year, Father Jon got permission to leave his job as a parochial vicar at St. Lucie Parish in Campbell to work instead as a full-time executive director at the multi-faith community organization called PACT, or People Acting in Community Together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:53] How different is what you’re what you’re doing now with PACT with these other community organizations and religious organizations? How is it different than the work that you were doing as a priest in terms of helping the immigrant community here in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:13:09] So my work now is really focused on building power. That means that this craziness is gonna come to an end. And at the end of when it happens, are we gonna be in a position where we don’t repeat the same cycle to get us in this mess again? So the first thing is you gotta get people to kind of get to that place, to see themselves different. So that we do that in in our leadership development, and then we get them to start working with other people, to start organizing with other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:41] Any specific issues that you’re you’re pushing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fr. Jon Pedigo \u003c/strong>[00:13:44] One of the big things is is universal legal representation. People without a lawyer are ten and a half times more likely to, you know, get out. And so all this illegality that’s going on, people not being presented with a warrant, there’s no way there to kind of bring this to the front. And so we’re working with members of the board of supervisors, working with members of the state senate, we’re looking with assembly members to you know look at this issue and how do we how do we structure it so it’s sustainable? The other piece is activating faith communities to be accompaniment teams. Accompaniment teams can do a bunch of different things, and we train different teams to handle different kinds of problems. And so there’s one team that works with a simple walking with people and helping them get connected to social services that they qualify for. Other forms of accompaniment can be going with somebody to court to an immigration check-in because you need to have people there showing that you have community support. It’s they’re less less likely to be taken away when you have a lot of people there. And so we’re now in the process of working with faith communities who have chosen to do one or more dimensions of accompaniment, and we’re opening that up even more. But it’s just basic organizing. And when you do that, with the belief that God wants you to do it, you’re you’re and there’s no stopping you because you’re already you’re already in a value based system where you believe the divine spark is the energy that’s moving you forward. Ain’t no one gonna stop you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:13] It is a lot more work than I’d ever expect a priest to do. But at the end of the day you’re still a priest. And i it seems like there is still a very important role that churches, houses of worship, faith leaders can play in this moment. How w what do you think is the role of a faith leader in times like these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Thursday evening, on the edge of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fruitvale\">Fruitvale neighborhood\u003c/a>, scores of parishioners carrying candles made a quiet procession out the heavy wooden doors of St. Jarlath Catholic Church, past the glowing stained-glass windows and around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This special service centered on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/prayer-index/immigrants-and-refugees\">prayer\u003c/a>, written by the late Pope Francis, for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061294/federal-immigration-agents-in-the-bay-what-we-know-and-dont-know\">protection of immigrants\u003c/a>: “May we seek a world where none are forced to leave their home and where all can live in freedom, dignity and peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These words were a balm for Vicente, 57, a welder with glasses and a goatee, whose 10-year-old son walked beside him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicente, who’s originally from Mexico but has built a life in the East Bay over the past quarter-century, said the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement has left his family, friends and coworkers in a constant state of anxiety. KQED is not using his last name because, even with a lawyer’s help, he’s been unable to obtain a secure immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all living with this same panic,” Vicente said. “More than anything, it’s the fear of being separated from our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fr. Simon Mbuthi stands outside St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland before a vigil for immigrant families on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>St. Jarlath’s pastor, Father Simon Mbuthi, organized the mass at the request of \u003ca href=\"https://fiaeastbay.org\">Faith in Action East Bay\u003c/a>, a multi-denominational community organizing network that advocates for immigrants. He said he was also moved to act because he had seen fewer students show up for catechism classes as their immigrant parents are fearful of leaving their homes any more than necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s to dispel fear, first of all, and also to let them know that they are not alone in this,” said Mbuthi, who’s originally from Kenya and holds mass in both Spanish and English. “We want to show them solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mbuthi stood outside the church in his red clerical robe, he said Francis’s prayer was not only meant to offer comfort but also a plea to God to open the hearts of those in power, namely the people making decisions about immigration enforcement — “that they may see our brothers and sisters not as criminals, not as enemies, but as human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Faith communities mobilize\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With social media feeds and TV news filled with videos of masked immigration agents smashing car windows and wrestling people to the ground in Chicago, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, Mbuthi is one of many Bay Area faith leaders working to build solidarity — and offer some solace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mass took place shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a near-unanimous \u003ca href=\"https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore\">special pastoral message\u003c/a> on Wednesday, condemning the government for “the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A son and mother hold hands in prayer during a vigil for immigrant families at St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants,” the bishops wrote in the rare unified message. “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, as immigration enforcement ramped up in President Donald Trump’s second term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063228/bay-area-religious-leaders-hold-interfaith-vigil-outside-of-ice-office-in-san-francisco\">religious leaders of many faiths have held vigils\u003c/a> outside the San Francisco office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, calling for an end to the agency’s increasingly harsh tactics that they say separate families and violate people’s rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in late October, when dozens of Border Patrol agents were deployed to U.S. Coast Guard Base Alameda with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">a plan to “surge”\u003c/a> them onto Bay Area streets, clergy were prominent among those protesting at the gates. The operation was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">canceled at the last minute\u003c/a>, following reports of phone calls to Trump made by tech executives at the behest of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parishioners kneel and raise candles as clergy lead a blessing outside St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland during a vigil for immigrant families on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protests come amid a sharp rise in arrests and detentions, as the Trump administration aims for “mass” deportations. ICE \u003ca href=\"https://enforcementdashboard.com/ice-arrests/?state=CALIFORNIA&composition=All&age_group=All&nationality_group=All&from_date=&to_date=\">arrests in California\u003c/a> shot up from 456 in July 2024 to 2,874 this past July, the most recent month for which data is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deportations from California grew 78% — to roughly 5,500 people in the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/ice-deported-california-21075519.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>, citing data obtained by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have been deeply distressed to see so many of our immigrant neighbors treated in such brutal ways,” Rev. Marjorie Matthews, pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ in Oakland, said at a recent rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dignity emboldened in faith\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At St. Jarlath’s, Vicente said he has barely wanted to leave the house lately, but he felt safe to attend the service because Faith in Action, a group he volunteers with, was involved. After the mass, organizers provided information to parishioners about the county’s rapid response hotline for verifying ICE activity and about resources for families whose loved ones face detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel more secure doing this vigil because there are people here who understand the issue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith in Action organizer Emma Paulino stands before a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emma Paulino, a longtime organizer with Faith in Action who asked Father Mbuthi to hold the service, said people need to see their clergy accompany them through this difficult time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many families, immigrant families, the church is their second home,” said Paulino, whose short gray hair framed her weathered face. “The church is a place where we feel safe, where we feel like this is my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With one in four Californians born in another country, the impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown is widely felt. Nearly 40% of likely California voters say they know someone whose mental health and finances are suffering as a result, according to an October \u003ca href=\"https://www.calwellness.org/news/new-poll-finds-californians-deeply-connected-to-their-communities-but-anxious-about-healthcare-and-affordability/\">poll by the California Wellness Foundation\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12063676 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed.jpg']Another recent poll, by the Public Policy Institute of California, found nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2025/\">three-quarters of Californians consider immigrants a benefit\u003c/a> to the state and say undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay legally if they meet certain requirements. Additionally, 71% said they disapprove of ICE’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Jim Wood, a lawyer and lifelong Oaklander, who’s a member of the St. Jarlath congregation and offers free legal services to others in the parish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have come here deserve so much better than what it is that this country is giving them,” said Wood, 77, as he walked in the evening procession. “These are extraordinarily courageous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he takes seriously Francis’s call to pray even for those whose actions he abhors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing that we can do is to stand up to the Trump administration with compassion, with love,” he said. “We learned from the civil rights movement that that is extraordinarily powerful and effective in creating change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man prays inside St. Jarlath’s Church during a vigil for immigrant families on Oct. 28, 2025, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Vicente, walking with his son and his priest and the other members of Faith in Action through the dark streets with candles raised meant a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gathering together in faith gives us strength,” he said. “We can say, ‘We’re here. And we’re working and helping this country.’ It’s a way of saying, ‘Here I am.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For advocates like Paulino, reminding people of their inherent worth is both an antidote to fear and a source of power — one they can draw from to organize for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, as a person of faith, my dignity is not something that somebody in a political power position gives to me,” she said. “It’s a gift from God. We have been created in the image of God, and that is something that no one can take away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicente, who’s originally from Mexico but has built a life in the East Bay over the past quarter-century, said the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement has left his family, friends and coworkers in a constant state of anxiety. KQED is not using his last name because, even with a lawyer’s help, he’s been unable to obtain a secure immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all living with this same panic,” Vicente said. “More than anything, it’s the fear of being separated from our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fr. Simon Mbuthi stands outside St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland before a vigil for immigrant families on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>St. Jarlath’s pastor, Father Simon Mbuthi, organized the mass at the request of \u003ca href=\"https://fiaeastbay.org\">Faith in Action East Bay\u003c/a>, a multi-denominational community organizing network that advocates for immigrants. He said he was also moved to act because he had seen fewer students show up for catechism classes as their immigrant parents are fearful of leaving their homes any more than necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s to dispel fear, first of all, and also to let them know that they are not alone in this,” said Mbuthi, who’s originally from Kenya and holds mass in both Spanish and English. “We want to show them solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mbuthi stood outside the church in his red clerical robe, he said Francis’s prayer was not only meant to offer comfort but also a plea to God to open the hearts of those in power, namely the people making decisions about immigration enforcement — “that they may see our brothers and sisters not as criminals, not as enemies, but as human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Faith communities mobilize\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With social media feeds and TV news filled with videos of masked immigration agents smashing car windows and wrestling people to the ground in Chicago, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, Mbuthi is one of many Bay Area faith leaders working to build solidarity — and offer some solace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mass took place shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a near-unanimous \u003ca href=\"https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore\">special pastoral message\u003c/a> on Wednesday, condemning the government for “the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A son and mother hold hands in prayer during a vigil for immigrant families at St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants,” the bishops wrote in the rare unified message. “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, as immigration enforcement ramped up in President Donald Trump’s second term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063228/bay-area-religious-leaders-hold-interfaith-vigil-outside-of-ice-office-in-san-francisco\">religious leaders of many faiths have held vigils\u003c/a> outside the San Francisco office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, calling for an end to the agency’s increasingly harsh tactics that they say separate families and violate people’s rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in late October, when dozens of Border Patrol agents were deployed to U.S. Coast Guard Base Alameda with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">a plan to “surge”\u003c/a> them onto Bay Area streets, clergy were prominent among those protesting at the gates. The operation was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">canceled at the last minute\u003c/a>, following reports of phone calls to Trump made by tech executives at the behest of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parishioners kneel and raise candles as clergy lead a blessing outside St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland during a vigil for immigrant families on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protests come amid a sharp rise in arrests and detentions, as the Trump administration aims for “mass” deportations. ICE \u003ca href=\"https://enforcementdashboard.com/ice-arrests/?state=CALIFORNIA&composition=All&age_group=All&nationality_group=All&from_date=&to_date=\">arrests in California\u003c/a> shot up from 456 in July 2024 to 2,874 this past July, the most recent month for which data is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deportations from California grew 78% — to roughly 5,500 people in the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/ice-deported-california-21075519.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>, citing data obtained by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have been deeply distressed to see so many of our immigrant neighbors treated in such brutal ways,” Rev. Marjorie Matthews, pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ in Oakland, said at a recent rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dignity emboldened in faith\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At St. Jarlath’s, Vicente said he has barely wanted to leave the house lately, but he felt safe to attend the service because Faith in Action, a group he volunteers with, was involved. After the mass, organizers provided information to parishioners about the county’s rapid response hotline for verifying ICE activity and about resources for families whose loved ones face detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel more secure doing this vigil because there are people here who understand the issue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith in Action organizer Emma Paulino stands before a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Jarlath’s Church in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emma Paulino, a longtime organizer with Faith in Action who asked Father Mbuthi to hold the service, said people need to see their clergy accompany them through this difficult time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many families, immigrant families, the church is their second home,” said Paulino, whose short gray hair framed her weathered face. “The church is a place where we feel safe, where we feel like this is my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With one in four Californians born in another country, the impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown is widely felt. Nearly 40% of likely California voters say they know someone whose mental health and finances are suffering as a result, according to an October \u003ca href=\"https://www.calwellness.org/news/new-poll-finds-californians-deeply-connected-to-their-communities-but-anxious-about-healthcare-and-affordability/\">poll by the California Wellness Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another recent poll, by the Public Policy Institute of California, found nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2025/\">three-quarters of Californians consider immigrants a benefit\u003c/a> to the state and say undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay legally if they meet certain requirements. Additionally, 71% said they disapprove of ICE’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Jim Wood, a lawyer and lifelong Oaklander, who’s a member of the St. Jarlath congregation and offers free legal services to others in the parish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have come here deserve so much better than what it is that this country is giving them,” said Wood, 77, as he walked in the evening procession. “These are extraordinarily courageous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he takes seriously Francis’s call to pray even for those whose actions he abhors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing that we can do is to stand up to the Trump administration with compassion, with love,” he said. “We learned from the civil rights movement that that is extraordinarily powerful and effective in creating change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man prays inside St. Jarlath’s Church during a vigil for immigrant families on Oct. 28, 2025, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Vicente, walking with his son and his priest and the other members of Faith in Action through the dark streets with candles raised meant a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gathering together in faith gives us strength,” he said. “We can say, ‘We’re here. And we’re working and helping this country.’ It’s a way of saying, ‘Here I am.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For advocates like Paulino, reminding people of their inherent worth is both an antidote to fear and a source of power — one they can draw from to organize for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, as a person of faith, my dignity is not something that somebody in a political power position gives to me,” she said. “It’s a gift from God. We have been created in the image of God, and that is something that no one can take away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:55 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the world familiarizes itself with the newly elected pope, some Catholics in the Bay Area are praying that the new leader of the church continues the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036912/pope-francis-death-bay-area-priests-urge-catholics-carry-legacy-mercy\">reformist legacy of his predecessor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope from the United States. He spent much of his ministerial career in Peru, despite growing up in Chicago and moved to the Vatican in 2023 to lead the Dicastery of Bishops, a department that oversees the selection of new bishops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope Francis, who died last month, was seen by many as a voice for change within the Catholic Church, in his calls for more inclusion of LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former pope was also outspoken on broader social and political issues. Francis repeatedly spoke about the plight of refugees and the duty of Western nations to treat them with dignity. He also urged global leaders to take action on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that Cardinal Prevost, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, has been named the latest successor to Saint Peter, local Catholics who spoke with KQED said they’re hoping to see a continuation of those advocacy efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing outside of Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Maria Luisa Soto described Pope Francis as a revolutionary force within the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039400 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Mundi sits in a pew at the Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hope they continue on the right path,” Soto said in Spanish. “I hope they provide a positive example for the greater community in the world of Catholics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reformist line that has existed in recent years, and the doors that Pope Francis has opened, especially to the immigrants, to the people who are dying in the Mediterranean, to all the people from vulnerable groups … that should be continued,” said Carol Mundi, visiting San Francisco from Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Church is an institution that has to move forward at the same pace as society,” Mundi said, speaking in Spanish. “And if society goes one way and religion goes the other, the only thing it will do is alienate believers.”[aside postID=news_12036912 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-05-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Father Tom Martin, the pastor of Saint Pius Church in Redwood City and associate vicar for clergy in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said he hopes Pope Leo serves as a bridge between the more progressive and conservative groups within the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know a lot about Cardinal Prevost, but just from what I’ve heard so far, and the fact that he really was a pastor, a missionary, I think really speaks to an ability to cross natural barriers and divisions. Perhaps that’s why the Cardinals elected him,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastor also said he believes the choice of papal name — Leo — may hint at a desire to continue pushing for social change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pope Leo XIII, who was pope in the early 20th century, wrote Rerum Novarum, which is one of the signal encyclicals in the church on how we deal with social issues and social questions: the rights of labor, the rights of workers, the dignity of family life,” Martin said. “ It sends a very powerful message that Pope Leo XIV will pick up that mantle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernhard Wolf and Maria Soto outside the Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francis’ tenure as pope galvanized some who grew up in the church but have grown distant from the institution or found their relationship with it complicated. This includes Salina Galea’i, who said she was a fan of what Francis stood for and hopes to see the new pope continue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The word that comes up for me when it came to any of his reform or advocacy is just inclusivity, and I think that’s really important for someone with that much say and power in the world, religious or not, to want to prioritize that,” Galea’i said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Thursday’s announcement, Father Martin spent the hours speaking to parishioners who expressed excitement at a pope from the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People take their relationship with the pope very seriously; it’s an intensely personal dynamic,” Father Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take some time to digest that,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:41 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area priests are calling on the more than 1 million Catholics in the region, mourning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970248/pope-francis-new-autobiography-hope-review-conclave-random-house\">Pope Francis,\u003c/a> to carry on his legacy of mercy and compassion after his death early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis, a progressive voice for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/catholic-church\">Roman Catholic Church\u003c/a> who spent his time in the Vatican advocating for migrants and the marginalized, died at 88 after a yearslong battle with his health. He was the first Latin American and first Jesuit priest to lead the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was unique among popes. One of a kind. He will be forever known as ‘the Pope of Mercy,’” Oakland Bishop Michael Barber said, recalling the pope’s declaration of a Holy Year of Mercy in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis called on Catholics to value compassion for the marginalized and to reach out to people who might have been forgotten or felt pushed out by the church’s teachings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber pointed to Francis’ final public address on Easter Sunday, just hours before his death, during which he called for mercy for migrants amid a wave of anti-immigration policy and sentiment, including from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants,” Francis said. “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar for Pope Francis at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467229313/pope-says-trump-is-not-christian\">during a visit to Mexico\u003c/a> near the U.S. border, Francis said, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.” He said at the time that the comment was not directed specifically toward President Donald Trump, who was in the midst of his first campaign, a pillar of which was building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Francis’] messages for peace, for consideration of the marginalized, those on the peripheries, immigrants, those that have no home — that will all go down in history and be remembered, and that will be carried on,” Barber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those messages were certainly on the minds of the few dozen Catholics like Doreen Landry who attended a midday Mass honoring the pope in Oakland on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You felt drawn in by his compassion, his sensitivity to the poor and the migrants to this country,” Landry, a social worker, said on her way into the Cathedral of Christ the Light. “In fact, he spoke to JD Vance allegedly about the unlawful deportation of migrants, which I am strongly against.”[aside postID=news_12035610 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']Christina Fernandez, who said she grew in her relationship with her faith during Francis’ papacy, connected with, “in the political climate that we’re in, [his] speaking out against the oppression of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His humanity, his love for people,” she said through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis was also an outspoken advocate for the environment. In his second papal letter, sent to bishops across the world in 2015, Francis called on Catholics to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/60616/pope-francis-climate-change-a-principal-challenge-for-humanity\">take urgent action to slow climate change\u003c/a> and criticized the consumerism and economic development that have exacerbated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps his most distinctive leadership will be his historic commitment to addressing the climate crisis,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic, said Monday in a statement reflecting on Francis’ leadership. “In his ground-breaking encyclical,\u003cem> Laudato Si\u003c/em>, Pope Francis writes with beauty and clarity, with moral force and fierce urgency to call on all of us to be good stewards of God’s Creation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom also commended the pope’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984407/the-politics-and-policy-around-newsoms-vatican-climate-summit-trip\">commitment to fighting climate change\u003c/a> and his efforts to uplift the voices of the poor and vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His papacy was characterized by moral courage, a profound respect for all creation, and a deep conviction in the transformative power of love to heal and unite,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, in a statement to his diocese on Monday, urged Catholics to “take inspiration from his words and example and put that inspiration into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-1536x1116.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-1920x1395.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis speaks to journalists during the papal flight direct to Rio de Janeiro on July 22, 2013. \u003ccite>(Luca Zennaro/Pool Photo via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is the greatest tribute we could give to him,” Cordileone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said Francis’ 2016 proclamation of a Holy Year of Mercy “inspired an outpouring of charitable works and led to the reconciliation of thousands of Catholics with the Lord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tried to reconcile those who were estranged from God and from the church, and there was a great resolve,” Barber told KQED. “A lot of people came back to the church, a lot went to confession. 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I didn’t understand I was being molested,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two hours at federal bankruptcy court in Oakland last Friday, eight male and female survivors of alleged childhood sexual abuse at the hands of priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland delivered emotional statements on how their lives had been forever changed by their abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statements are part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957801/east-bay-priests-accused-of-abuse-still-active\">ongoing bankruptcy proceedings\u003c/a> for the diocese, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2023 following a state law extending the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse lawsuits filed in California. That change precipitated a wave of over 300 lawsuits against the Oakland Diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the survivors said this was a rare moment in bankruptcy court, which typically only deals in assets and funds, as it allowed survivors to give statements without being cross-examined or having the information used against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity for survivors to tell their truth and to share their lived experiences so that the court and the parties in the case are aware of the facts that underlie the bankruptcy and the reason there are so many claimants who have come forward,” said Jennifer Stein, an attorney with Jeff Anderson and Associates, which represents over 100 Diocese of Oakland abuse survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statements, made to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William J. 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Two are dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the accused have yet been found liable in the civil lawsuits related to the bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors spoke about the power church leaders had over the children in their charge and their exclusive access to them.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-diocese\"]Speaker 2 said that as a child, Monsignor John T. McCracken, on several occasions, locked him in the library of St. Mary’s Church in Walnut Creek and molested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave me something to drink, pulled my pants down, and I felt a stabbing pain from behind,” he said. “He told me, ‘You’ll go to hell if you tell anyone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the speakers on Friday said they were raised by devout Catholic families who worked hard and saved money to send their children to Catholic schools, partly because they thought they would be safer there. And they all described the ongoing harm they suffer because of the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose not to have children, even though my husband wanted one,” Speaker 3 said. “I couldn’t be touched by men. I will always mourn the children I could have had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went on to say that she is currently battling breast cancer, which she said was not detected early because she had avoided having hands-on medical checkups as a result of the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others detailed ongoing problems with substance use, broken marriages, intimacy, weight and self-confidence linked to the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started using and selling hard drugs in 8th grade,” Speaker 7 said, “I was hypersexualized. I’ve had nightmares my entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the diocese proposed paying 345 abuse claimants between $464,492 and $574,637, with a total payment between $160.25 million and $198.25 million. 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Barber said: “We recognize that no amount of money can satisfactorily compensate survivors for the abuse they suffered. Bearing that in mind, we believe the plan compensates survivors in a fair and equitable way and allows the Diocese of Oakland to set a path forward to continue to spread the Gospel, serving the faithful and the poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court last Friday, many of the survivors directly appealed to Barber at the end of their statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s imperative that the diocese do the right thing and provide just compensation,” Speaker 2 said, facing Barber. “I ask you, ‘What would Jesus do?’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all eight survivors spoke, Barber asked to make a statement of his own, eliciting audible groans and prompting many of the survivors to walk out of the courtroom. 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