This Christmas, churches are preparing for a frenzy of festivity

A few hours after the Washington National Cathedral posted on Facebook on Wednesday (Nov. 29) that admission to its Christmas family service and Advent concerts this year would require a $7 ticket, the cathedral backed down in the face of the ire of its own parishioners and apologized for its decision.

Catholic Archdiocese Prevails Over CA Government In Fight For Education Funding

A California ruling found that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) miscounted the number of low-income students attending Catholic schools, gutting funding for high-need students.

Latino Theater Company performs story of the Virgen de Guadalupe

For more than 20 years, the Latino Theater Company in downtown Los Angeles has offered a free holiday gift to the community: its annual production of “La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin.” The show celebrates the Mexican Roman Catholic story of how the Virgin Mary appeared to an indigenous peasant named Juan Diego and called on him to unite the people of Mexico after the Spanish conquest.

Exhibición de arte en el centro de Los Ángeles celebra la Virgen de Guadalupe

El artista Lalo Garcia creó una nueva exhibición de arte inspirado por la Virgen de Guadalupe adentro de la Catedral de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles titulado “La Protectora de Inmigrantes”. Comenzará el 3 de diciembre y terminará el 5 de enero.

Feds: LA Unified Held Back Funds from Low-Income Catholic School Students

The U.S. Department of Education has affirmed a previous ruling that the Los Angeles Unified School District violated federal law by slashing funding for low-income Catholic school students, according to a decision announced Thursday.

Feds: LA Unified held back funds from low-income Catholic school students

The U.S. Department of Education has affirmed a previous ruling that the Los Angeles Unified School District violated federal law by slashing funding for low-income Catholic school students, according to a decision announced Thursday.

The Buzz Holiday Theater Wrap-Up

La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple St. downtown
December 1-2

Latino Theater Company presents its signature holiday pageant, a Los Angeles holiday tradition since 2002. It’s the story of Juan Diego, a simple peasant to whom the Virgin Mary appeared on four occasions in the mountains of Tepeyac near Mexico City in 1531. Starring Elia Saldana as the Virgin Mary and Sal Lopez as Juan Diego, the cast features more than 100 actors, singers and indigenous Aztec dancers as well as children and seniors from the community.

Former Teacher and Sex Abuse Survivor Motivates Archdiocesan “Garden of Healing”

About five years ago, Joe Montañez sat in the parking lot of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in Simi Valley, feeling immensely nervous and shaky over what he was about to do. Minutes later he walked into a meeting with representatives of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to reveal “shameful abuse by my predator” – a priest who sexually abused him almost 50 years earlier.