• What is the family’s value in our society?
    August 26, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    We need to put the family first again in our society.

    For the Church, the family has always been what the popes call “the vital cell” of human society. For the Church, the family is the center of love where individual personality is formed and values and traditions are passed on to new generations.

  • Catholic Charities helps with relief after Calif. quake
    August 26, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    The Church in northern California is helping respond to a major earthquake, which shook Napa Valley early Sunday morning, the largest earthquake to hit the area in 25 years.

    Jennielynn Holmes, director of shelter and housing for Catholic Charities in the area, said they are partnering with local emergency response programs to provide assistance.

  • Faith and each other come before sports in the talented Tuiasosopo family
    August 24, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Trying to ease an aching back, Matt Tuiasosopo emerges from an ice bath at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma.

    Outside, his mother, Tina, waits patiently at the players’ entrance for her third-born son. She gives him a big hug and gently rubs his back.

  • ‘We’re saying the Church is here’
    August 22, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “I spend almost all my time visiting patients. We do not sit and wait for referrals to come to us. We go and see patients. We, ideally, see everybody.”

    Father Bob Jones, a chaplain at Los Angeles Ccounty-USC Medical Center the last 17 years — back when one of the busiest public hospitals in the western United States was located in a historic art deco facility on State Street — has his black bag packed and ready to go. It’s stuffed with bottles of holy water, prayer books and holy cards to give away along with a translation of some Zapotec words spoken in the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico and info sheets about what St. Camillus Center for Pastoral Care has to offer.

  • Cathedral Chapel School celebrates 85 years of teaching
    August 21, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Students returned to classes at Cathedral Chapel School on Monday for what school administrators said will be a special year on campus. The school is celebrating its 85th anniversary, and will be holding a special ceremony in April for alumni, teachers, students and their families.

  • Vocational formation and the new evangelization: Ongoing discernment
    August 21, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    The 35-year old lawyer asks himself, “Do I leave the job that I love, sell my condo, and give up the life that I have been living to enter the Seminary? After all, I have been thinking about the priesthood since grade school.”

    The 21-year old college student at the local state university has been volunteering on the weekends with a group of religious sisters visiting the sick, the elderly and the homebound. Although she has been excited about a career as an accountant, she is now wondering if God is calling her to be a religious sister serving the poor and the sick.

  • Local Korean Catholics welcome papal visit to Korea
    August 20, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Pope Francis’ visit to South Korea — his first trip to Asia and the first papal visit to the country in 25 years — was received positively by Los Angeles’ Korean Catholic community.

    During his trip, the pope beatified 124 Korean martyrs, helped celebrate Asian Youth Day for young Catholics, and even conducted an impromptu baptism for the father of a deceased victim of last April’s Sewol ferry tragedy, which killed 300 people.

  • Middle East crisis: ‘We are still on the brink of extinction’
    August 20, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    A day after U.S. warplanes dropped a barrage of bombs to help Iraqi and Kurdish ground troops take back Iraq’s largest dam near Mosul, some 500 Assyrian Christian supporters marched on Los Angeles’ busiest streets and freeway overpasses — from Union Station to City Hall — shouting “Stop ISIS Now!” while waving the white, blue and red Assyrian flag.

  • C3 Technology Conference-Guadalupe Radio TV
    August 19, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    C3 Technology Conference- Un programa piloto patrocinado por la Arquidiocesis de Los Angeles junto a la Universidad Católica de Loyola Marymount. C3 busca proveer herramientas y formación técnologica y digital a las parroquias y escuelas católicas.

  • God’s magnificent plan for the family
    August 19, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    As the summer winds down and we move into fall, we need to turn our prayers and reflection to the meeting of the world’s bishops that Pope Francis has called for October 5-19 in Rome.

    The Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will discuss the theme of “pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelization.”