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Boys’ volleyball: Loyola leads Catholic schools into CIF-SS playoffs
First-round action in the CIF-Southern Section boys’ volleyball playoffs begins May 8 with several local Catholic schools primed to compete for titles, including six league champions.
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Children living with the threat of deportation at home find an unlikely source of understanding in one LA classroom
Cindy, a fourth-grade teacher at a parochial school in East LA, likes to treat her students as equals. Both are on journeys of discovery and learning. Like studying how students in China have a different way of learning their multiplication tables — something she shaked her head at with a questioning smile, before showing me around her cozy classroom.
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United as one voice, California Encuentro delegates prepare for ministry
Hope, energy and the drive to unite to share the Catholic faith filled the Visalia Convention Center, as nearly 1,300 delegates — including laypeople, priests and 21 bishops — gathered for a regional encuentro.
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United as one voice, California encuentro delegates prepare for ministry
Hope, energy and the drive to unite to share the Catholic faith filled the Visalia Convention Center, as nearly 1,300 delegates — including laypeople, priests and 21 bishops — gathered for a regional encuentro.
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Encuentro process inspires some to go to society’s peripheries
Going to the peripheries of society to encounter others has been a constant theme of Pope Francis’ five-year papacy.
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Spring polls: La Reina takes charge in D-5 softball
With just over a week remaining in regular season play, La Reina is the new No. 1 team in Division 5 softball, according to the latest CIF-Southern Section poll released April 30.
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Be ‘microphones of God’
We conclude this encounter with these powerful words from the risen Jesus that we have just heard in our Gospel reading.
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Coffee shops brew a cup of community at Los Angeles churches
Jimmy Valdez danced on Skid Row, dressed in wedding attire with his bride. They handed out donated food. They celebrated their marriage in a way only someone whose life was saved from the peril of addiction could celebrate. For Valdez, that salvation started with a church preaching more than just religion but service.
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Immaculate Heart students get political through civic engagement workshops
The National Student Walkout on April 20 encouraged many students to leave their classrooms to protest gun violence, but Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School observed the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting by focusing on civic engagement.
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Spring polls: St. Anthony, La Salle still 1-2 in volleyball
Nearing their Camino Real League rematch on May 1, St. Anthony and La Salle remained one-two among Division 4 teams in the latest CIF-Southern Section boys’ volleyball poll released April 23.


