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Basketball: Bishop Montgomery boys, girls again seek matching CIF titles
To no one’s surprise, the Bishop Montgomery Knights — California’s No. 1 team — received the top seed in the high-powered Open Division of the CIF-Southern Section boys’ basketball tournament, and will begin play Feb. 16 against St. John Bosco.
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Debating immigration reform
As I write these words, the U.S. Senate has just begun an open-ended debate that will decide the fate of 800,000 young people who were brought to this country illegally as children.
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Gomez: Family unity should be at the heart of U.S. immigration policy
Following the start of a U.S. Senate debate over immigration on Monday, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles charged that Dreamers are being used as “bargaining chips” by politicians and called for family unity to be at the heart of immigration policy.
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Storytellers set to share live, true tales of ‘Love, Romance and Other Disasters’
Cabinets are a stiff-but-nonjudgmental audience.
Linda Lowe, of Camarillo, has discovered the advantages of using her cupboards as an audience as she prepares for the first Ventura Storytellers Project performance Feb. 21.
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ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ CALLS FOR FAMILY UNITY TO BE AT THE HEART OF IMMIGRATION POLICY
In his weekly column published today by Angelus News, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez addresses the U.S. Senate debate over immigration. Archbishop Gomez focuses his writing …
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More than 50 couples renew wedding vows during World Marriage Day Masses
Fifty-four couples — celebrating 75, 62, or 25 years of matrimony — renewed their wedding vows on Sunday, Feb. 11, during the World Marriage Day Masses at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
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Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick administered during World Day of the Sick Mass
The elderly and sick from throughout southern California gathered to receive the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick from Archbishop José H. Gomez on Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron, from the Santa Barbara pastoral region, served at homilist.
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This former Warner Bros. exec is making digital media work for the Church
bout a year-and-a-half ago, I interviewed Matt Meeks, chief digital and marketing officer for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, for an article on the transformation of the archdiocese’s media outreach. During that discussion, some interesting personal details came out, such as Meeks’ former job at Warner Brothers and his time spent discerning the priesthood. I recently spoke again with Meeks to hear more about his story and his work spreading the Gospel using digital media.
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Loss of temporary protected status distresses Salvadorans in US
If Rosa Bonilla could visit face-to-face with President Donald Trump, she would plead, “Please do not separate more families” of U.S. immigrants.
“It is already so painful that children are living without their parents, that husbands and wives are separated, that brothers and sisters are separated, that families are divided,” the El Salvador native told NCR on Jan. 28 in Los Angeles.
“First and foremost,” the mother of three said, “I would emphasize how much we want and need comprehensive and just immigration reform.”
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Weaving the divine
Originally, John Nava’s tapestries for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles were commissioned to enhance the musical quality and acoustics of the vast space. Engaging with this ancient technique, however, so significant in the history of church décor, Nava breathed new life into an old and almost forgotten art form.
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