• From age to age: Memories and support
    June 26, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    On May 30, Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School held its 90th commencement exercise. Jan Chambers has been present for 40 of them.

    Throughout that time, the school has changed names, principals (she has worked with six administrators), uniform styles and more. Chambers herself has served as department chair, athletic director, coach, teacher and yearbook moderator.

  • Holiness is our daily task
    June 26, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Holiness is the heart of our relationship with Jesus and holiness is the heart of our mission as Christians.

  • Mary Health of the Sick celebrates 50th anniversary
    June 26, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    When Betty Mosler could no longer care for herself after living in her own home for many years, she considered long-term care at Mary Health of the Sick, a nonprofit that serves individuals in their last stages of life.

  • Viajará a México enviado del Papa para seminario sobre migración
    June 23, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    El ‘número dos’ del Vaticano, el cardenal secretario de Estado Pietro Parolin, viajará a México a mediados del mes de julio para participar en un congreso internacional sobre migración.

  • Catholic Conference responds to state budget
    June 20, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The budget Gov. Jerry Brown received this week was “sober” but not “good,” according to Edward Dolejesi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference.

    “It pays the bills, it provides money for more effective public safety and human service programs at the local level, and there’s some money left over for a rainy day,” Dolejsi noted. “But for a small, incremental investment, it could have been so much more.”

  • The mission of a deacon couple
    June 20, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    As an 18-year-old youth in his native El Salvador, Leonel Yoque faced a potentially life-and-death decision in 1989. With his country in civil war between leftist guerrillas and the rightist government, his university was shut down and his options were limited.

  • We need a new conversation about religion in American life
    June 19, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Last week at the annual Spring meeting of the United States Catholic bishops, my brother bishops and I voted unanimously to continue our “ad hoc” Committee for Religious Liberty for another three years.

  • Helping the LAPD deal with deaths — Part I
    June 19, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    he spring has been deadly for the Los Angeles Police Department. In just over two months, four officers died in horrendous traffic collisions. Another died from an apparent heart attack.

    —Officer Nicholas Lee died on March 7 when an out-of-control dump truck coming down Loma Vista Drive in Beverly Hills smashed into his patrol car. The 40-year-old’s partner in the black-and-white was also injured.

  • In Glendale: An outreach to refugees fleeing persecution
    June 19, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “Gemma” and her husband, Armenian Apostolic Christians, fled religious persecution in their native Iran by paying smugglers to take them to Turkey. From there, they proceeded on to Bosnia and finally arrived in Austria, their last stop before being interviewed and accepted as refugees to the United States in 2000.

  • Jersey Vargas stays the course for immigration reform
    June 18, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    For 10-year-old Jersey Vargas, her four siblings and her parents, Teodula and Mario — a humble immigrant family living in the Los Angeles area — the last three months have been a blur, from Jersey’s rare opportunity to meet Pope Francis, to Mario’s long-awaited release from an ICE detention center, to the whirlwind of media attention that followed their heartfelt family reunion.