The annual Archdiocese of San Francisco Restorative Justice Ministry Walk for Peace and Mass for victims of homicide and survivors drew Catholics and others to pray in solidarity on April 18, at St. Mark Church in Belmont, CA.
“I get out in 10 days, and I don’t have a job,” said one of the men incarcerated at San Quentin who visited the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s first In-Custody Reentry Fair at the state prison Saturday. “I need to be able to work and I am not sure who will hire me.”
Nearly 1,200 people streamed through the doors and crowded around the 160 booths with organizations offering hope and a second chance to formerly incarcerated youth, and adult men and women attending the 12th annual Restorative Justice Reentry Conference, Resource & Jobs Fair.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone stood outside a neatly painted single story home in a quiet San Mateo neighborhood this morning and led a short prayer service for the family of four who died in an apparent murder-suicide earlier this month.