• La ciudad de las 50 etnias: LA celebra su diversidad cultural
    September 19, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    La diversidad de Los Ángeles al alcance de la mano. Coreanos, filipinos, nigerianos, portugueses, croatas, mexicanos de Oaxaca, etc. al menos 48 comunidades se unieron el pasado sábado para la celebración de la Misa anual de las Culturas que tuvo lugar en la Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles.

  • ‘You of the press are important”
    September 14, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “You of the press are important,” St. Pope John Paul II said shaking my left hand after Shepherd One, the papal jet, landed at the Los Angeles International Airport on the morning of Sept. 15, 1987. It was on a special tarmac at LAX away from where most commercial planes landed. There was an army of photographers and journalists along with dignitaries and some interlopers who had managed to get by security.

  • St. Joseph’s Miller: Connecting faith, football and family
    September 14, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    The way Timothy Miller sees it, football and family have a lot in common. And not just because his twin brother Joseph plays with him at St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria, or because their father Jim was one of seven football-playing brothers at St. Francis in La Cañada.

  • How L.A.’s Catholic schools are growing when so many others are closing
    September 13, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    What most stands out upon meeting Dr. Kevin Baxter, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, is his restlessness. Even early on …

  • CIF-SS polls: Catholic schools lead in football, volleyball
    September 13, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Mater Dei, Paraclete and Bishop Diego held onto their No. 1 rankings in the latest CIF-Southern Section football polls released Sept. 11.

  • Don Bosco Technical Institute dedicates new emerging technology labs
    September 13, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Students, faculty and members of the board of trustees of Don Bosco Technical Institute (Bosco Tech) in Rosemead dedicated the school’s new technology laboratories and its newly renovated technology corridor during a Mass on Sept. 8, the feast of the Nativity of Mary, with Bishop David G. O’Connell as the celebrant.

  • St. John Paul II was here — 30 years ago this week
    September 12, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    I talk a lot about the saints who have come to Los Angeles to pray and to minister and to encourage us.

  • POR LOS JÓVENES Y PARA ELLOS
    September 11, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Han transcurrido 15 años y todavía Alberto Embry se emociona cuando a su oficina llega un joven a mostrarle con orgullo un certificado de haber completado la secundaria, o le cuenta que está cursando una carrera, o comparte algún otro hecho que esté mejorando su vida.

  • Kathryn Lopez: America not something to hoard
    September 10, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    I’m just off a trans-Atlantic crossing. You don’t realize how moving the experience of walking to the top of a ship for a pre-dawn arrival in New York City will be until you have the opportunity to do it. I found myself after a week on the ocean oddly comforted by the sight of buildings. As much as the sunsets and rises on the ocean drew me into a renewed appreciation for the beauty of the Earth, Glenn Frey’s “You Belong to the City” was playing in my head. Dry land has its advantages.

  • DACA: Another Chance for Political Unity
    September 9, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Sept. 5 the highly anticipated decision by President Donald Trump to gradually rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive order that effectively shielded 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation. While causing a firestorm of criticism, the actions of the president nevertheless open a window for a bipartisan effort to find the common good on a pressing and polarizing issue. (See story.)