• CASA DEL MIGRANTE
    September 3, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    TIJUANA— A minivan could drive through the gate to a Catholic-run center for deported migrants. The metal-mesh door swings open and the only place to knock is on the embedded mailbox.

    It’s a big yellow building, four floors and sleeps hundreds. Guests, mostly recently deported immigrants, have to do chores. There’s a talk or meeting every night — Alcoholics Anonymous, or a presentation from a social worker or a lawyer. On one weeknight, there’s Mass.

  • The beautiful truth about marriage and family
    September 2, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    In my recent columns for The Tidings and AngelusNews.com, I’ve been reflecting about marriage and the family, trying to help us pray and prepare for the important Synod of Bishops that will begin in just a few weeks.

  • New war on poverty alters tactics and premises
    August 31, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Why fight about the extent of blight in Toledo and how to combat it? T-Towns or a blight authority?

    I say both.

    Obviously both.

    The city itself must be active cutting grass, clearing junk, citing slumlords. And neighborhoods have to take hold of their own destinies — they actually do a pretty good job of that in Toledo, not always getting a lot of help from the city.

  • Brother Guerrero makes first profession as Salesian
    August 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Brother Benito Guerrero, Jr., made his first religious profession of the vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity as a Salesian of Don Bosco Aug. 16 at St. Dominic Savio Church in Bellflower.

    The Salesians’ new provincial superior, Father Theodore Montemayor, received his vows in the name of the Rector Major of the Salesian Society. Brother Guerrero completed his year of novitiate at St. Joseph’s Novitiate in Rosemead under the direction of Salesian Father William Keane and other formation personnel.

  • ‘We are called to invite others,’ archbishop tells seminarians
    August 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Seminarians, both new and returning, were welcomed to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Aug. 21 for a special Mass and luncheon with Archbishop José Gomez, who invited them to be mindful of the Gospel call of invitation to a closer relationship with God.

  • St. Camillus celebrates 60 years of care to patients
    August 28, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “You serve Jesus Christ — Jesus Christ in his passion, his suffering with the poor, the marginalized and those who have no one else to turn to. Your love for the suffering is a sign of God’s love. God’s compassion is in each of you in your compassion,” Archbishop José Gomez told 15 current and former hospital chaplains Aug. 24 during a Mass of Thanksgiving at the 60th anniversary of St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care.

  • In South Los Angeles: ‘We feed the hungry’
    August 28, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “Here’s the crew,” Kim Williams exclaims this late weekday morning from her electric wheelchair. She reaches out with both arms to bear-hug a young man with Down Syndrome. “Charles, my baby. How you doing?”

  • Positive energy: LACPB speaker will ‘challenge’ youth
    August 28, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    From its humble beginning nine years ago as an opportunity for the business community to gather for prayer and breakfast before the work day, the annual Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast has grown into a two-day event (this year Sept. 15-16) that will likely draw more than 2,500 people.

  • CCC opposes bill that impinges on religious freedom
    August 27, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    As the end of the California legislative session nears, the state’s bishops have recently issued Action Alerts about four key bills on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk that they support and one which they oppose due to impingements on religious freedom.

  • Random shootings kill two parishioners from SFV churches
    August 27, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The parish communities of Santa Rosa de Lima Church in San Fernando and Guardian Angel Church in Pacoima are mourning the loss of two beloved parishioners, who were shot and killed on their way to Mass early Aug. 24 in an apparent series of random shootings in the San Fernando Valley.