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CURRENT ISSUE: February 7, 2011 • VOL. 49, NO. 3 • Oakland, California

Walk for Life
draws a
youthful crowd
“We were super proud of the young people,” co-founder Eva Muntean said of the estimated 40,000 people who converged under a banner declaring, “Abortion Hurts Women.”
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Related story: Oakland rally calls attention to 'Black genocide'

Parishes plan activities
for Black History Month
Although no diocesanwide commemoration is planned, several parishes are sponsoring Black History programs or activities to celebrate the contributions that black Americans and people of African descent have made in U.S. history and culture.

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Q&A with parishioner dedicating life to God
St. Edward parishioner set to become the first from the Oakland Diocese to join a small group of consecrated virgins
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More commentary

Readers will notice more improvements with this issue of The Catholic Voice.

In response to reader demand, we are adding more room for commentary. We have created two new, facing Forum pages in the print edition, the content of which you'll find under the FORUM tab above. This added space allows us to publish more insightful guest columns, from Oakland diocese residents to international thought leaders. Letters from readers can be opposite the commentaries in the print edition, but on occasions when we have more letters than one page can hold, we can now accommodate them all, rather than holding them for a future issue or not publishing them.

The Forum will always be on the last two inside pages of the print edition (and under the FORUM tab above), and the Datelines calendar of events and Around the Diocese news will move ahead of the Forum pages.

As is the case in many diocesan newspapers, Page 2 of the print edition will become the page for official Church news, whether from the diocese, the U.S. bishops or The Vatican. The content of that page will appear under the THE CHURCH tab above.

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