• Many blessings: La Reina celebrates 50th anniversary
    September 11, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Sr. Mary Josanne Furey, who served 13 years as principal of La Reina High School beginning in 1970, said the Catholic school for girls surpassed her dream for the future.

    “We weren’t that sure that La Reina would make it at all,” said Fury, who began teaching at La Reina in 1966 and wrote the lyrics of the school’s alma mater. “There was nowhere to get students. I asked to have seventh and eighth grades, and that turned the tide. Since then, everything has been going well. Look how wonderful it is today.”

  • St. John’s women: ‘They are very much part of our seminary’
    September 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    More than a few good women have influenced life at St. John’s Seminary over its 75 years. From women’s initial roles as housekeepers and office staff, to their inclusion as faculty in the late ’60s, to admittance of laywomen (and laymen) in the 2000s as graduate students alongside seminarians, women have made a difference both on and off the campus.

  • St. John’s Seminary: A diamond in Camarillo
    September 10, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Camarillo was an active farming community long before 1939. But with the establishment of St. John’s Seminary on 100 acres of what had been farmland, it could be said that these historic grounds have, indeed, continued to produce a very unique and, yes, essential element to nurture the faith of an increasingly large and diverse flock.

  • From the beginning: Southland seminaries
    September 10, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    California is one of those singular areas of the Church universal where the notion of a seminary system predated by ten years the actual establishment of a diocesan government.

    As early as the 1830s, the Presidente of the California missions, Fray Narciso Duran, suggested a seminary for the education of young men who felt inclined toward the ecclesiastical state. Six years later, the Franciscan Comisario Prefecto proposed establishing a college “to which all the youth of the Californias may flock, as well as many of the Indians of the various idioms, in order to receive the education and knowledge peculiar to their state,”

  • Forming men of mission and men of mercy
    September 9, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    This 75th anniversary marks a new beginning.

    St. John’s is one of America’s historic seminaries — with a long legacy and an important role still to play in the Church’s mission in the 21st century. Here in this seminary, we are forming priests for the new evangelization of our country and our continent — men of mission and men of mercy.

  • Mother Teresa and Us
    September 6, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    ‘Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was probably the most familiar Christian face of our generation,” Los Angeles archbishop José Gomez writes in his foreword to The Love That Made Mother Teresa: How Her Secret Visions and Dark Nights Can Help You Conquer the Slums of Your Heart by David Scott. “Her works of love, done for the abandoned and forsaken in a remote city in India, made hers a household name the world over,” Archbishop Gomez continues.

  • Losing a limb to diabetes — the poverty factor
    September 4, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    A diabetic middle-aged woman in South Los Angeles told me — after losing five toes, her right foot and ankle, along with nearly half her leg — that she was doing “just fine.” That’s what she said, even though the ugly sore on the sole of her good foot wasn’t healing, forcing her to use a wheelchair more and more, fearing another amputation was inevitable.

  • ‘The Little Flower’ in our midst
    September 4, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Michel Pascal is a cradle Catholic, born in France. Church was his home, his soul, always. His parents brought him to Lisieux as a child of six and he became smitten with Thérèse, the Little Flower.

    All these years later, “St. Therese” — the play he has written, directed and produced — has been staged all over the world, more than 700 times since 2009. This month, he’ll bring it to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • Grand Marian Procession: ‘Solemn and joyful’
    September 4, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “We are taking to the streets the treasures of our Catholic faith for all the world to see,” says Mark Anchor Albert, founding chairman of the Queen of Angels Foundation that is organizing the Sept. 13 Grand Marian Procession that will wind its way through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, ending at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • SCRC ’14: Support from the pope, stories of saints
    September 3, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    In the early 1980s, the charismatic renewal started a lot of things in Steve Montross’ life, including a deeper relationship with the Lord and a budding desire, eventually fulfilled, to become a deacon at St. Raphael Church in Santa Barbara.