• Ministering to the Gangs of Los Angeles
    August 5, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  No Comment

    The Church is making strides to reduce gang violence, but more effort is needed to make parishes an effective presence and voice for peace on …

  • SCV welcomes new pastor
    August 2, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Last month parishioners of Our Lady of Perpetual Help welcomed a new senior pastor to lead the congregation.

    Monsignor Craig Cox, 61, joined the church July 1, replacing Father Richard M. Martini who was transferred to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Carpinteria.

  • Migrants or refugees? The factors that push unaccompanied minors across the border
    July 31, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    This past Sunday, Father Fidel Hernandez celebrated Mass for 200 undocumented children being detained at Port Hueneme Naval Base in Oxnard.

    The children have been there since June. Immigration officials have been finding places of detention in various U.S. cities for the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the border in recent months. Most of the minors are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

  • Dismas Ministry: Spreading God’s Word in prisons
    July 31, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    There was a recurring pattern in many of the letters Ron Zeilinger received as a religious order’s fund development director in Wisconsin 15 years ago. Prison chaplains and inmates were requesting free Catholic Bibles and study courses “like the Protestants have.”

  • ‘Help Save Rose Campaign’ creating magic to raise funds
    July 31, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    A fundraiser to finance life-saving treatment for a young Monrovia girl blinded by a rare form of brain cancer will be held Aug. 16, 6 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, Monrovia.

    The family of three-and-a-half-year-old Rose Hengehold is seeking experimental treatment for their daughter that is offered at a hospital in Houston. Rose’s parents, Joe and Alicia, are trying to raise $160,000 for the treatment that involves medication which needs approval from the FDA.

  • Video: Brown subscribe acuerdo para proteger derechos de trabajadores mexicanos en CA
    July 31, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – El secretario del Trabajo y Previsión Social, Alfonso Navarrete Prida y el gobernador de California, Edmund G. Brown Jr. se comprometieron a trabajar juntos para proteger los derechos de los trabajadores migrantes mexicanos en California.

  • Crime forces parishes to increase security
    July 30, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The shooting and killing of Father Kenneth Walker, a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, on June 11 in Phoenix has brought attention to the careful balance parishes must maintain between safety and remaining accessible to the communities they serve.

  • A cultural ‘window of opportunity’
    July 30, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Education and advocacy are needed now in a cultural “window of opportunity” to alert the majority of the population repulsed by the eugenics of the past to the near and present dangers of the “New Eugenics” movement, said Catholic leaders at the Bioethics and Eugenics Conference July 26 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • The Quica Project: A mission to make Catholic education available to every child
    July 30, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    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. The Quica project bears her name because our mission is to allow Spirit and Truth education available to every child.

  • Pide gobernador de California legalizar a indocumentados en EU
    July 30, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, México, jul. 29, 2014.- El gobernador de California, Jerry Brown, señaló que otorgar status migratorio legal a los 11 millones de indocumentados en los Estados Unidos permitiría a sus hijos viajar a ese país legalmente, evitando así los riesgos que enfrentan los menores migrantes no acompañados al intentar cruzar la frontera.