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Archbishop Gomez renews call for permanent solutions to immigration issue
Archbishop José H. Gomez today issued the following statement on the termination of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for more than 200,000 Salvadorans living in the U.S.
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Time to act on DACA
Once again, we begin a new year with uncertainty and fear over immigration, and this year our leaders in Congress face a hard deadline.
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Archbishop José H. Gomez Renews Call for Permanent Solutions to the Immigration Issue as TPS for El Salvador Terminated Impacting Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants and US Born Children
Catholics this week are celebrating 50th anniversary of National Migration Week (Jan. 7-13), an annual time of reflection on the contributions that immigrants and refugees …
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Arzobispo angelino reza por “valentía” en Washington para salvar a ‘dreamers’
El arzobispo de Los Ángeles, monseñor José Gómez, instó a los fieles pedir en sus plegarias “valentía” para los políticos en Washington que tienen en sus manos salvar de la deportación a unos 800,000 jóvenes ‘dreamers’.
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Priest’s hospital room mix-up allows dying woman to receive sacraments
Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, Father Gergorio Hidalgo went to a hospital to give Communion to a patient. But a “mistake” in room numbers allowed him to administer the sacraments to a dying woman as well.
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Community bands together as Thomas Fire spreads
Although firefighters begin to see containment in sight for many of the six blazes in Southern California, the Thomas Fire has expanded to become the state’s fifth largest wildfire since 1932, devouring ranch property in Santa Paula, destroying homes in Ventura, Carpentaria and Ojai and now threatening the country’s most expensive homes in Santa Barbara.
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New Lay Maryknoll Missioners Span the Globe to Help the Poor
Mike Garr hopes to return from his mission in Kenya in 2021 with a better understanding of people living in poverty. The 61-year-old retiree is one of seven missioners in the 50th Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ (MKLM) class who will begin their assignments this month.
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POPE FRANCIS BESTOWS SPECIAL HONORS ON TWO ST. ANASTASIA PARISHIONERS
It’s not every day that American Catholics hear from the Vatican. It’s even rarer for a layperson to receive the equivalent of a thank you note from the pope. But Laurette Lucille Bibeau and Herb Klein, active parishioners of St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Westchester, are now among those who have received such an honor.
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[IMMACULATE HEART MIDDLE SCHOOL] Bringing Holiday Cheer to Skid Row
Adopt-A-Family is a great program whose mission is to provide families in the downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row areas with a magical Christmas. Immaculate Heart Middle School has paired with this organization for over 10 years.
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‘La Virgen de Guadalupe: Dios Inantzin’ celebrates 15th year at the cathedral
For theatergoers around the world, the Christmas season is synonymous with famous productions, such as Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” But over the past 15 years, a growing number of people in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, particularly its Mexican Catholic demographic, have also come to associate yuletide theater with the Latino Theater Company’s (LTC) annual performance of the powerful play “La Virgen de Guadalupe: Dios Inantzin” at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Downtown L.A.
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