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LAPD Valley chief urges calm amid deportation fears
Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Robert Green said he and his team are working to “promote calm” amid concerns in the San Fernando Valley over the possibility of mass deportations of immigrants.
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Pope encourages popular movements to help stop dehumanization
Pope Francis gave strong words of encouragement to the more than 600 members of grassroots organizations gathered for the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements conference Feb. 16-19.
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World Day of the Sick: A mother remembers the gift of her son
Evan Harrington had a contagious joy. He would grab onto your arm and laugh, and you’d find yourself laughing too, as though you were both sharing a joke, even though Evan hadn’t said anything.
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‘Rapping’ priests and religious educate students at Focus 11 Vocation Day
Members from 15 different religious orders “rapped” about how much they loved Jesus in front of nearly 500 sixth-grade Catholic school students from the San Gabriel Region during a rally at the inaugural Focus 11 Vocation Day. The event was held Feb. 7 at St. Therese Church in conjunction with the Carmelite Sisters’ St. Joseph Center in Alhambra.
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Catholic high school educators learn, collaborate at historic in-service day
Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills welcomed an estimated 1,700 educators representing 44 Catholic high schools from across three counties for the largest single gathering of Catholic high school educators in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in more than 35 years.
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The joy of marriage
This past weekend I had the joy to celebrate World Marriage Day and preside over the renewal of wedding vows for 64 couples, including one couple who have been married for 71 years.
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LA’s Catholic couples celebrate marriage as cathedral promotes bonds
There was something in the air at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angeles on Sunday.
A little thing called love.
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Sal y luz
Hasta el momento, este Año Nuevo ha sido todo un torbellino.
Estaba yo leyendo que un columnista de Washington describió el otro día la manera cómo se ven las cosas desde la capital de la nación: “Estamos viviendo momentos determinantes en la historia y nadie sabe aquí hacia dónde vamos o en qué terminará este período. Todos —la izquierda, la derecha y el centro— sienten que la tierra se hunde bajo sus pies. Están pasando demasiadas cosas”.
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‘Sunday Funnies’ brings clean stand-up comedy to parish halls, colleges
Once a month, parishioners at Christ the King Church in Hollywood who make their way to the parish hall after 10:30 a.m. Mass aren’t just treated to coffee, donuts and bagels; they’re also treated to a full hour of laughs courtesy of an impressive lineup of touring comics.
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Farewell to Bishop Solis
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown Los Angeles was a place of celebration, farewells and well wishes, as religious, deacons and lay faithful from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles gathered for an evening send-off Mass for Auxiliary Bishop Oscar A. Solis on Feb. 1.


