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Ryan’s Wells founder inspires students during school visit
The founder of Ryan’s Well Foundation shared inspiring words with the students of St. Paschal Baylon School in Thousand Oaks while thanking them for their decade-long effort to bring clean drinking water to disadvantaged parts of the globe.
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Mary’s message of peace and hope
May is a beautiful time here in Southern California — especially this year, when we have been blessed with an abundance of rain and an end to our long drought.
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Former Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, George H. Niederauer, has died
Former Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, George H. Niederauer, has died at age 80.
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The witness of the ‘new martyrs’
The Church is a Church of martyrs — always and everywhere, in every time and in every place.
As Pope Francis said this past weekend, “the ancient history of martyrdom joins the memory of the new martyrs” being killed today.
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Sister Sheila FitzSimons dies, leaves legacy of service
On April 1, Sister Sheila FitzSimons of the Sisters of Providence died at the congregation’s nursing facility in Indiana after serving as a religious sister for 74 years. She was 90-years-old.
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Ramona robotics team participates at Spaceport L.A.’s 2017 Women in Space event
On March 18, Ramona High School’s robotics team were special guests at Spaceport L.A.’s 2017 Women in Space event, manning their own booth and demonstrating their award-winning robot while fielding questions from more than 200 guests.
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Relics of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina to tour the United States
Relics of the renowned 20th century mystic and healer, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – better known as Padre Pio – will be touring several Archdioceses and Dioceses in the United States of America, between May 6 and May 21, and from September 16 to October 1, 2017.
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Notre Dame’s Hunter Greene makes cover of Sports Illustrated — and California history
The alert came on Hunter Greene’s phone as he sat in a psychology class at Notre Dame.
Next came a text from his father Russell said, “Proud of You”.
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Notre Dame High’s Hunter Greene to be featured on Sports Illustrated cover
Hunter Greene is joining an elite group of athletes that includes LeBron James, Bryce Harper and Kevin Garnett. All were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as high school athletes.
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Thousands entered Church in US at Easter
About one-third of the dioceses in the United States have reported the numbers of catechumens and candidates who were intending to enter the Church at the Easter Vigil.
The highest figures were supplied by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (2,694 catechumens and candidates—up from 1,638 in 2015), the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (2,375), the Diocese of Dallas (2,175), the Archdiocese of Atlanta (1,892), the Archdiocese of Newark (1,192), the Archdiocese of Washington (1,181), and the Archdiocese of Seattle (1,088).
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