• Redondo Beach church remembers those killed, injured in crash
    December 22, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  No Comment

    On Sunday at St. James Catholic Church in Redondo Beach, people who knew Samuel gazed at the photos, now part of a memorial bursting with teddy bears, poinsettias and candles, and remembered a 6-year-old whose infectious spirit made him everyone’s friend

  • Las Posadas, una tradición que cruza fronteras
    December 19, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Ni el frío ni la lluvia pueden vencer el peregrinaje, los cantos de letanías, el rosario, la piñata con dulces y el chocolate caliente que caracterizan a Las Posadas, dice entre risas el señor Jose Chávez, un residente de este condado que esta semana y la siguiente formará parte del evento navideño en la iglesia Nuestra Reina de Los Ángeles, en la Placita Olvera.

  • Christmas and the love of God
    December 19, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Jesus came into this world as a child, vulnerable and dependent.

    He made himself little so that we could love him. So that we could pick him up, hold him in our arms and take care of him, just as Mary and Joseph held him on that first Christmas night in Bethlehem.

  • Sir Daniel
    December 12, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Daniel Joseph Donohue, a Catholic philanthropist who supported Catholic high schools in low-income areas, backed programs serving the poor and was instrumental in the construction of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, died Dec. 3. He was 95.

  • Angelinos le cantarán las mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe
    December 12, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Devotos de la Virgen de Guadalupe en Los Angeles ya dieron inicio a los festejos en honor a la santa patrona de México. De acuerdo con las tradiciones mexicanas, fue el 12 de diciembre de 1531 que la venerada madre le apareció por última vez a Juan Diego. Cuatro siglos después, la fecha permanece como una de los festejos religiosos más importantes en México. Así se vive la celebración en honor a la Virgen del Tepeyac en la Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles.

  • Miles festejan a la Virgen de Guadalupe en LA
    December 12, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Creyentes en Los Angeles se unieron a los millones que celebraran la santa patrona de México con tradicionales ceremonias y misas.

  • El Dasa es fiel devoto de la Virgen de Guadalupe
    December 12, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    El cantante de música banda habló de su gran devoción por la Guadalupana, y también tiene grandes sorpresas en Teletón USA.

  • San Fernando religious ed coordinator to run NCCL
    December 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    At the annual fall meeting of the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership on Nov. 21, the NCCL’s board announced that Margaret Matijasevic, San Fernando regional coordinator of Religious Education here in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, would be the national organization’s next executive director starting Jan. 5, 2015.

  • A Christmas candlelight celebration brings back the true spirit of Advent
    December 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    ENCINO — Under crystal-clear skies and a full moon, Notre Dame High School students reenacted the events leading up to the Nativity.

    The first-ever “A Christmas Candlelight Celebration!” took place on the evening of Dec. 4 at the Holy Spirit Retreat Center in Encino. Students acted out important moments in the lives of Joseph and Mary, including the Annunciation, the Visitation, the birth of Christ and the Gifts of the Magi.

  • ¡Que viva la Virgen! Thousands celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe at 83rd annual feast day procession and Mass
    December 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Scores of young boys dressed as miniature Juan Diegos and little girls donning multi-colored hair ribbons and traditional Mexican-style dresses marched beside Aztec and Matachines dancers, indigenous drummers, mariachi musicians and everyday Catholics along Cesar Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles on Dec. 7 during the 83rd annual procession and Mass honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe.