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Workshops to help parishioners tackle issue of homelessness in the community
The issue of homelessness has been front and center in the news for many months as local government agencies and community advocacy groups have grappled with how to best provide services to the destitute. With recent changes, there is an unprecedented opportunity for local Catholics who seek to more fully live their faith and incorporate the principles of Catholic social teaching into their lives to get involved.
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‘Migrants Are Persons Like Us’: Border Bishops Offer Prayers After Deaths
Catholic bishops from both sides of the border near McAllen, Texas, issued a joint statement expressing condolences to the families of migrant children and parents who recently drowned trying to cross the river into the United States.
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Crossing the border for a brighter future
Sitting at a dark-wood dining room table next to her close friend and mentor, Daniela Luna begins to tell her story.
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USCCB leaders decry policies they say led to child deaths at border
Leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in an op-ed cast blame on government policies for recent child deaths near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Archbishop Gomez: ‘Everyone realizes we love them’
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on July 1, 1769, St. Junípero Serra arrived at the port of San Diego, having journeyed on foot for more than five months from Loreto, Mexico.
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L.A. Catholic Events
Papal Prayer Intention for July: That those who administer justice may work with integrity, and that the injustice which prevails in the world may not have the last word.
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Why the SB 360 debate is a moment for interfaith unity
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man: and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.” — James Madison, 1785
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Cheerleading: Catholic school teams seek championship repeats
To on-the-field, on-the-court, in-the-pool and all other locales associated with sporting competitions, please add on-the-sidelines — as in, competitive cheerleading.
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How five bishops could deliver a powerful pro-immigrant gesture
One of the bigger Vatican stories this week came in the unlikely form of a papal reaction to a photograph. On Wednesday, the Vatican released a statement saying Francis was heartsick about the image of a father and daughter from El Salvador who drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande to reach the United States.
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Christian Families can Change the World
On June 18, 2019, the Most Reverend José H. Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles delivered the keynote address at the annual liturgy conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, speaking on the pastoral state of the family.
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