• Dismas Ministry: Spreading God’s Word in prisons
    July 31, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    There was a recurring pattern in many of the letters Ron Zeilinger received as a religious order’s fund development director in Wisconsin 15 years ago. Prison chaplains and inmates were requesting free Catholic Bibles and study courses “like the Protestants have.”

  • ‘Help Save Rose Campaign’ creating magic to raise funds
    July 31, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    A fundraiser to finance life-saving treatment for a young Monrovia girl blinded by a rare form of brain cancer will be held Aug. 16, 6 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, Monrovia.

    The family of three-and-a-half-year-old Rose Hengehold is seeking experimental treatment for their daughter that is offered at a hospital in Houston. Rose’s parents, Joe and Alicia, are trying to raise $160,000 for the treatment that involves medication which needs approval from the FDA.

  • Video: Brown subscribe acuerdo para proteger derechos de trabajadores mexicanos en CA
    July 31, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – El secretario del Trabajo y Previsión Social, Alfonso Navarrete Prida y el gobernador de California, Edmund G. Brown Jr. se comprometieron a trabajar juntos para proteger los derechos de los trabajadores migrantes mexicanos en California.

  • Crime forces parishes to increase security
    July 30, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The shooting and killing of Father Kenneth Walker, a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, on June 11 in Phoenix has brought attention to the careful balance parishes must maintain between safety and remaining accessible to the communities they serve.

  • A cultural ‘window of opportunity’
    July 30, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Education and advocacy are needed now in a cultural “window of opportunity” to alert the majority of the population repulsed by the eugenics of the past to the near and present dangers of the “New Eugenics” movement, said Catholic leaders at the Bioethics and Eugenics Conference July 26 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • The Quica Project: A mission to make Catholic education available to every child
    July 30, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Maria Marcos Romo Gonzalez (also called “Quica”), the sister of Mexican martyr St. Toribio Romo Gonzalez, dedicated her life to enabling poor children, including her brother, to receive a Christ-centered education. The Quica project bears her name because our mission is to allow Spirit and Truth education available to every child.

  • Pide gobernador de California legalizar a indocumentados en EU
    July 30, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, México, jul. 29, 2014.- El gobernador de California, Jerry Brown, señaló que otorgar status migratorio legal a los 11 millones de indocumentados en los Estados Unidos permitiría a sus hijos viajar a ese país legalmente, evitando así los riesgos que enfrentan los menores migrantes no acompañados al intentar cruzar la frontera.

  • Gobernador Brown promete ayuda de California a niños migrantes
    July 30, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    MÉXICO ― El gobernador de California Jerry Brown se comprometió ayer ante obispos y diplomáticos centroamericanos y el arzobispo de Los Ángeles José Gómez a hacer todo lo que esté en sus manos para ayudar a resolver la crisis de los niños migrantes no acompañados.

  • Student struck by lightning mourned at vigil
    July 30, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    NORTH HOLLYWOOD – St. Charles Borromeo Church was full Tuesday night as a community gathered to mourn the loss of Nick Fagnano, 20, who was killed when lightning struck Venice Beach on Sunday afternoon.

  • Venice Beach lightning storm victim was electrocuted, coroner says
    July 30, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    A 20-year-old man who died after a freak lightning storm hit while he was in the water at Venice Beach was electrocuted, the Los Angeles County coroner said.

    Nick Fagnano, of Los Angeles, was pronounced dead late Sunday afternoon, not long after he was pulled out of the water as thousands of beachgoers scattered for cover.