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Report: US bishops choose delegates for 2018 Synod
Meeting in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly, the U.S. bishops have selected their choices for delegates to next year’s Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment, multiple sources have reported to CNA.
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New program for baptism preparation offered online
In early December, the archdiocesan Office for Worship will launch a new program (offered in both Spanish and English) to help better prepare parents and godparents of infants for the sacrament of baptism.
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Black Catholics in today’s Church
“Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Catholicism was all around me,” recalled Anderson Shaw on a recent early November morning. The director of the African American Catholic Center for Evangelization was sitting behind a desk in his small office in St. Eugene’s rectory in South Los Angeles. “Although my mother was a devout Southern Baptist — she read the Bible every day from front to back ’til the day she died — she sent me to Catholic school to get a better education.”
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First ‘Alta-Baja’ Bishops Meeting Connects U.S. And Mexico
Three archbishops and nine bishops representing at least 13 million Catholics from Sacramento to Ensenada have resurrected their “Alta-Baja” friendship, paving the way to potentially working together in the future.
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Bishops voice support of migrants, worries over ‘poisoning rhetoric’
The longest and most passionate discussion on the first day of the fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 13 focused on immigrants, on how to help them but also how to drive home the point that they, too, are our brothers and sisters and should not be demonized.
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One-hundred years of God’s love in America
As I write this week, I am in Baltimore attending the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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US bishops to issue statement on need for immigration reform
As the conclusion of a lengthy discussion on migration, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops decided Monday to draft a statement from their president expressing the need for humane and just immigration reform.
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Immigration leads agenda as U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops turns 100
he nation’s Catholic bishops, holding their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, will take up immigration, an issue on which they are in direct conflict with President Donald J. Trump.
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Imágen peregrina del La Virgen de Guadalupe recorre el sur de California
Las imágenes de la Virgen de Guadalupe y de Juan Diego están en Los Ángeles, y por primera vez también visitarán las parroquias del condado de Orange y San Bernardino durante noviembre y diciembre.
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We are in the mercy business
This past weekend I was invited to address students in the business program at Mount Saint Mary’s University here in Los Angeles.
I do not hold a master’s degree in business. I have training as an accountant, so I know how companies work. However, my main job is to be a pastor, a priest.
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