• HOLY LAND: Where saints have walked before us
    September 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    It’s easy to slip when walking the Via Dolorosa in Old City Jerusalem, especially if it’s raining. The stones are so worn down, so smooth. So many pilgrims over the centuries have followed in the Lord’s footsteps, contemplating his Passion.

  • Resurrection’s struggle against Exide continues
    September 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “The question the communities of the Southern Greater Los Angeles area for 30 years have been asking is why have the state agencies allowed Exide to pollute the children, the neighborhoods of our communities with lead, arsenic and other hazardous chemicals again and again over 30 years?”

    Msgr. John Moretta spoke from the steps of Resurrection Church, the parish he’s led for 31 years in Boyle Heights, addressing a Sept. 18 rally, at which he and others urged Gov. Jerry Brown to sign two bills that would require hazardous waste facilities, like Exide Technologies, to fully comply with federal and state laws.

  • For Orange’s Own, “The Veil Is Lifted”
    September 24, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

  • Remembering our ‘historia’
    September 23, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Every people has a story they tell about their beginnings. A story about where they came from and how they got here. A story that helps them make sense of their identity, of who they are as a people.

    We are all familiar with the story of America’s beginnings. It’s the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower. It’s a story about leaders — Washington, Jefferson, Adams. And big ideas — religious liberty, democracy, individual rights.

  • A long, prayerful farewell to San Diego’s bishop
    September 18, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The long farewell to San Diego’s bishop, Cirilo Flores, concluded Wednesday with a day of pomp and ritual, tears and the occasional burst of laughter.

  • ‘Dolphin’ film raises students’ compassion, faith awareness
    September 18, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Immaculate Conception eighth grader Alicia Noemi Lopez had never seen the 2011 film “Dolphin Tale” about an injured dolphin fitted with a prosthetic tail. But the story particularly resonated with her when she saw a screening of the movie along with fellow students Sept. 11.

  • Kathleen Kim: Advocate for exploited immigrants and trafficked victims – PART I
    September 18, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Kathleen Kim’s parents immigrated from South Korea. So the 39-year-old professor at Loyola Law School — who Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed to the Los Angeles Police Commission, which oversees the LAPD, last year — grew up with a bedrock family immigrant identity.

  • Ordinati Day: ‘Honoring the priesthood’
    September 18, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Looking out at the audience of Serra Club members, clergy, religious and laity attending the 64th annual Ordinati Day Luncheon celebrating recently-ordained priests, Father Juan Ochoa shared a secret from his days as a new seminarian attending Juan Diego House.

  • Pro-life training: ‘Look at everything through clients’ eyes’
    September 18, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    From a young age, Abby Johnson possessed a deep-seated desire to help women in need. As an adult, that led her to a career with Planned Parenthood, where she became a clinic director and attempted to serve women in crisis — despite a growing sense of unease about the organization.

  • San Diego bishop remembered for Christian example in life, death
    September 18, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    San Diego, Calif., Sep 18, 2014 / 06:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- San Diego’s late Bishop Cirilo Flores was “a man of the Beatitudes” with a deep affection for the people of his diocese, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles said at the bishop’s Sept. 17 funeral Mass.