• ‘This is not war. This is genocide’
    August 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “There’s just a lot of killing — a lot of killing of innocent Christians,” Donna Panoussi, 43, was saying after the only Sunday Mass at St. Paul Chaldean and Assyrian Catholic Church in North Hollywood. Many of the congregants filing out still had family and friends in Iraq.

    Her mother, Rosa Bouganian, 67, pointed out how she was half Armenian, on her father’s side, and half Assyrian. “They’re killing everybody, kids and adults.” she said.

  • Evangelizing online forum kicks off C3 conference at LMU
    August 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    The great evangelists Sts. Peter and Paul took full advantage of the network of Roman Empire roads to spread of Good News of Jesus Christ throughout the then-known world. Today’s evangelists must do likewise with the Internet and social media, the director of the Los Angeles Archdiocese’s Office of New Evangelization stressed during opening remarks at the Digital Church Conference this week at Loyola Marymount University.

  • Tweeting in Latin: Social media and the Catholic church
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    This week, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is hosting a technology conference at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

    The conference is aimed at teaching those within the Catholic faith how to best use social media to bring people into the church.

  • 3rd Annual Catholic Communication Collaboration (C3) Technology Conference
    August 13, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Msgr. Paul Tighe, the Vatican’s social media expert, discussed the Catholic Church’s emerging presence in the digital world with teachers, clergy and staff from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Msgr. TIghe, Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications of the Vatican, was the keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual Catholic Communication Collaboration (C3) Technology Conference on Wednesday, Aug. 13 at Loyola Marymount University. With more than 10 million followers on Twitter, the Vatican’s resident expert on social media hopes to inspire the faithful in new and exciting ways.

  • Meet Monsignor Tighe, who oversees the Holy Twitter
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Everyone is on Twitter these days.

    Celebrities, politicians, companies – even the pope. Where it used to take physical travel and the printed word to spread “the good works of the Gospel,” now the pope – and the Catholic Church – can reach 15 million followers in the click of a button.

    And who does Pope Francis turn to when he needs advice on perfecting the pontifical tweet? Perhaps, Monsignor Paul Tighe, the Vatican’s social media secretary.

  • Running the Holy Twitter
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Everyone is on Twitter these days.

    Celebrities, politicians, companies – even the pope. Where it used to take physical travel and the printed word to spread “the good works of the Gospel,” now the pope – and the Catholic Church – can reach 15 million followers in the click of a button.

  • LAUSD opens doors to young Central American immigrants
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    At the low-slung bungalow west of downtown, a youngster screams from a vaccination and a nurse records the height and weight of an older boy. Academic counselors stand by, because it is here that many children who recently crossed the southern border enroll in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

  • Vatican social media guru: Catholics should give Internet ‘a soul’
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The Pope’s social media expert said Wednesday that Catholics should be using social media to make the atmosphere online a positive place where people can deepen their relationships with one another.

  • The new media and the new evangelization
    August 12, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    This week, we held our annual C3 Technology Conference at Loyola Marymount University.

    You can read more about the conference elsewhere in the pages of this week’s Tidings and online at Angelusnews.com.

    For me, this conference is another sign of how important new technologies are for our mission of the new evangelization.

  • VATICAN’S SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT ARCHDIOCESE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
    August 12, 2014  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ C3 Technology Conference, August 11-14, explores innovative technology in parishes and schools The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest diocese, …