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Catholic school principal retires after more than 50 years of service
A Catholic school principal and member of the Immaculate Heart Community, a lay organization, will retire after more than half a century of working to serve young women in education.
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St. Didacus School opens new technology and media center
On May 15, St. Didacus School in Los Angeles dedicated a new school building devoted to incorporating technology into the school curriculum. The Jo Ann Malone Trust’s charitable contributions made the new educational center possible.
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Lay Mission-Helpers commissions two new missionaries for Cameroon
On May 15, the Lay Mission-Helpers Association commissioned José (Chuy) Muñoz and Marco Svoboda as missionaries to Cameroon during a ceremony at St. John the Evangelist Church in Los Angeles.
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Better late than never: 88-year-old man is baptized with great-grandson
On May 22, 88-year-old Hacienda Heights resident Andy Black saved the best for last, or, it could be said, saved the first for last: he was baptized as a Catholic at American Martyrs Church in Manhattan Beach. As interesting as it is for someone to be baptized so late in life, Black’s baptism was made even more special by the fact that he received the sacrament along with his 5-month-old great-grandson William O’Connor.
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Archbishop, immigrant advocates decry plans for stepped-up raids
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said in a May 25 statement that a planned increase in federal immigration raids is “yet another depressing sign of the failed state of American immigration policy.” The raids were announced in mid-May.
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The world as it should be
Catholic social teaching gives us a vision of the world as it could be and as it should be. The world as God created it to be.
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USCCB Migration Chairman, Archbishop Gomez, Troubled Over Reports of New Immigrant Deportation Raids
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration expressed deep concern over reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will soon begin a month-long series of immigrant deportation raids. Incoming committee chairman, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, also voiced such concern.
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Catholic Bishops Express Concern Over Reports of Immigration Raids
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration expressed deep concern over reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will soon begin a month-long series of immigrant deportation raids. Incoming committee chairman, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, also voiced such concern.
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El Santo Niño de Atocha: Arrival of icon in Santa Paula eagerly awaited
The procession Saturday at 3:00 p.m. will no doubt draw thousands when one of Santa Paula’s favorite saints, El Santo Niño de Atocha returns for a visit to what is now considered the icon’s second sanctuary, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.
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