• New L.A. priests: ‘Humbled and honored to be called’
    May 28, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  No Comment

    Two native Angelenos, a New Yorker and a Mexican-born Juan Diego House seminarian will be ordained May 31 to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

    Archbishop José Gomez will ordain Fathers Andrew Chung, Christopher Felix, Juan Ochoa and John Palmer in a morning Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. All have completed their theological formation at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, including year-long internships at parishes throughout the archdiocese, and recently completed service as transitional deacons.

  • Father Romero returns to Taos to celebrate Golden Jubilee
    May 28, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Born in Taos and ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles half a century ago, Father Juan Romero will return to the church of his Baptism, San Francisco de Asís in Ranchos, for a Golden Jubilee Mass.

  • LA priest says he has lived his vocation ‘from my mother’s womb’
    May 28, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Los Angeles, Calif., May 28, 2014 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- A young Nigerian priest who serves the Hispanic community in California says he received his vocation in his mother’s womb.

    Father Kelechi Alzoie current serves at Holy Family Parish in Wilmington, Calif., which has a large Hispanic population, mostly of Mexican origin.

  • St. Augustine grads remembered for ‘culture of the true, the good and the beautiful’
    May 24, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The students graduating from St. Augustine Academy noted the sense of family their close-knit class of 15 developed, but Headmaster Michael Van Hecke said before the afternoon ceremony Saturday that he thinks the grads are differentiated by “their spirit — their cultural effect.”

  • Malta L.A. group makes Lourdes pilgrimage
    May 22, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Knights, Dames and volunteers from the Los Angeles Location of the Order of Malta recently travelled on their annual week-long pilgrimage to Lourdes.

    Each year, the Los Angeles group joins up with other members of the United States Western Association of the Order of Malta forming a group in excess of 300, and journeys to the location where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared 18 times to St. Bernadette in 1858. The pilgrimage is shared with 50 malades (French for “sick”) from California and other Western states searching for spiritual and even physical healing.

  • SOAR! Dinner set June 22
    May 22, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Three individuals and a foundation will be honored at the Support Our Aging Religious (SOAR!) Dinner on June 22, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

    Kathleen Aikenhead, president of the William H. Hannon Foundation; Timothy and Steph Busch, active in Catholic education and numerous Catholic lay endeavors; and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will be recognized for their efforts in support of church ministries and religious.

  • History and suffering in the Holy Land
    May 22, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    This week, our Holy Father Pope Francis makes his first trip to the Holy Land.

    His pilgrimage reminds us that our Christian faith is rooted in the history and geography of the land that was made holy because God once walked upon it.

  • CALL awards Archbishop Gómez Scholarship to teacher
    May 22, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Carla Rivera, a teacher at Good Shepherd School in Beverly Hills, has been selected the 2014 recipient of the Archbishop José Gómez Scholarship awarded by the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (CALL).

  • Thomas Aquinas College Honors Former President, Benefactors of Chapel
    May 19, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles recently visited Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., to bless bronze plaques and a book that honors the benefactors of the campus chapel, according to the College’s website.

  • Parroquia católica Los Ángeles firma acuerdo con Universidad de Guadalajara
    May 18, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Los Ángeles, 16 may (EFEUSA).- Una parroquia católica en la ciudad californiana de Compton, de mayoría hispana, firmará hoy un acuerdo con la mexicana Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) para iniciar en sus instalaciones un programa en línea de preparatoria y universidad básica.

    El programa, el primero de su tipo en la arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles, ofrecerá clases en español que buscan educar a las generaciones de inmigrantes que no han podido completar su formación académica, en esta ciudad ahora de mayoría hispana.