• Notre Dame High School grad died in Sunday’s lightning strike at Venice Beach
    July 28, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    LOS ANGELES >> The parents of Notre Dame High School graduate Nick Fagnano confirmed Monday morning that their son was killed after lightning struck while he was in the water at Venice Beach.

  • Divine Word Missionaries mark 50 years in the West
    July 28, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    SAN BERNARDINO—The Society of the Divine Word’s U.S. Western Province celebrated 50 years of service to Catholic communities in California with a Mass on May 28 at Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral.

    Priests serving throughout the Diocese of San Bernardino and in neighboring dioceses came to celebrate the anniversary of their province. The Mass highlighted the many cultures and countries served by the Divine Word Missionaries.

  • ‘Quicas’ among us: Following in the footsteps of Santo Toribio’s sister
    July 25, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

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    July 25, 2014
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    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.

  • L.A. Catholic Prayer Breakfast set Sept. 16
    July 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Carmelite Sister Regina Marie Gorman, a 2013 Cardinal’s Award recipient, is the featured speaker for the tenth annual Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast, scheduled Sept. 16 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • ‘A gun only has one purpose — and that’s to kill’
    July 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    It’s an image St. Monica parishioner Suzanne Verge still has in her head, 35 years after the fact:

    Peter in a half-wetsuit riding the foaming crest of a small breaking wave, his left foot inching towards the nose of an olive-green surfboard to hang five, left arm thrown back with hand curled for balance. The stoked look on his face — not really hot-dogging it, but a mixture of boyish joy, semi-guarded exhilaration and “I-can-handle-this, man.” No way this little-bitty SoCal wave was going to knock him down. Not now or any day of his easy going, perpetually happy, surfing-centered 18-year-old life. Wasn’t he working as a boxboy at Vons, saving every dollar he could stash away, so he could move to Hawaii and ride the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu?

  • Mass in Recognition of Immigrants
    July 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Archbishop José H. Gomez, joined by his fellow bishops from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as well as from the Dioceses of Orange and San Bernardino, led thousands in celebrating the annual Mass in Recognition of Immigrants July 20 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • An Interview with L.A. Ultra-Marathon Runner Geoff Cordner
    July 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Geoff Cordner is a 54-year old ultra-marathoner who has completed 100-mile runs through some of the roughest terrain in California. He’s also a web designer, photographer, and writer who blogs at Slow Twitch Journal. His fine essays — “Wandering,” “Gimp Shoes,” “Rattlesnakes, Wild Parrots, and Meditation on Sound” — reflect upon the mystery of running, the difficulty of human relationships, and his fierce reverence for the mountains that have formed and sustained him.

  • Film documentary highlights ‘radical kindness’ of the late Msgr. Sheridan
    July 24, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Our Lady of Malibu parishioners contribute time, treasure and talent to produce a film documentary of their beloved pastor emeritus, which premiered at a special screening in Calabasas July 17.

  • Johnson: A family’s 90-year journey in Pasadena
    July 23, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The latest generation of the Duncan family of Pasadena arrived in February. The baby was a girl.

    The family patriarch, John David Duncan, 81, sits, filled with pride, as he tells me about her from behind his desk in the study of his home.

  • ‘You gave your children good ground for hope’
    July 23, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    The following is adapted from the archbishop’s homily at the annual Mass in Recognition of Immigrants July 20, after which thousands lined up, inside and outside of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, to venerate the traveling relic of Santo Toribio Romo.