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Celebrating the Class of 2021
One hundred and seventy-eight young men from the Class of 2021 graduated on Friday evening, May 28th, in a joint Baccalaureate Mass and Graduation Ceremony hosted by St. Francis High School under the lights in Jim Bonds Stadium on Friedman Field in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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New LA priests: Jihoon Kim
The Class of 2021 will begin their first assignments as parish life gradually resumes around the archdiocese following a year of closures, outdoor sacraments, and social distancing.
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San Jose bishop prays for victims of another ‘senseless’ shooting
San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantú urged prayers for the victims and their families after a gunman opened fired the morning of May 26 at a rail yard operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, north of downtown San Jose.
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Los Angeles clergy celebrate Mass for unaccompanied migrant children
Catholic clergy in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have been celebrating Masses this month for hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children housed in large temporary shelters.
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Pandemic spiritual communion leaves altar bread industry in crisis
Of the many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Catholic Church, one has gone largely unnoticed.
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ARCHDIOCESAN PRIESTS CELEBRATE MASSES FOR UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT MINORS HOUSED IN LONG BEACH AND POMONA
–Angelus News exclusive reports that Archdiocese secured permission to celebrate Masses for migrant children to recognize the human dignity that every child deserves and their …
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El arzobispo Gómez dará misa en el albergue de niños migrantes en Los Ángeles
Los obispos y sacerdotes de la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles recibieron un permiso especial para celebrar misas desde principios de mayo para los cientos de menores migrantes no acompañados alojados en el albergue establecido en Long Beach y en el Fairplex de Pomona.
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What’s new — and what isn’t — about the ‘eucharistic coherence’ debate
The first thing to realize about the U.S. bishops’ concern with pro-choice Catholic politicians who receive holy Communion is that, from the bishops’ point of view, the issue isn’t politics, but, rather the reverence due the Eucharist and the perilous spiritual situation of someone who receives the sacrament unworthily.
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Charity is fundamental to politics, Pope Francis tells youth
Charity is a necessary part of politics, Pope Francis told youth from around the world on Thursday.
“Politics are the highest form of charity. Love is a political matter. Love is for everybody, and when love is not universal, politics fail in their intent,” Pope Francis said, through a Vatican News language interpreter, on Thursday.
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A front seat to history
You could say Cardinal Justin Rigali has had an altar seat to Catholic Church history.
From his youth in Los Angeles to assisting at Vatican II to a diplomatic assignment in Madagascar to serving four popes and to being the shepherd of two major U.S. archdioceses, Cardinal Rigali has seen his vocation to the priesthood take him around the globe.