• A procession of funerals: ‘How many blue angels does God need?’
    May 14, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  No Comment

    The coffin of LAPD Officer Roberto Sanchez is placed into a hearse after a funeral Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Wednesday, evoking emotions from his parents, Francisco and Patricia Sanchez, left, and wife, Sonia Sanchez.

  • Archdiocese launches App for Life video on Mother’s Day
    May 10, 2014  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    Pro-life App has saved more than 90 babies since January More than 90 mothers have changed their minds and chosen life for their babies over …

  • St. Anthony HS students donate to Miller Children’s Hospital
    May 9, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Students from St. Anthony High School in Long Beach are taking a hands-on approach to learning about the importance of charitable giving and helping others thanks to the guidance of their teacher, Brett Minter.

  • What does it mean to have a vocation?
    May 8, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    As we do every year on the fourth Sunday of Easter, this Sunday we join the universal Church in praying for vocations to the priesthood and the religious and consecrated life.

    In his message for this year’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis invites all of us “to listen to the voice of Christ that rings out in the Church and to understand what their own vocation is.”

  • Can the natural world afford a ‘just war’?
    May 8, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Being good stewards of the earth behooves people to reflect on whether the natural world can afford a “just war,” considering the destructive power of contemporary weapons upon fragile eco-systems, according to a leading Biblical scholar.

    Sister of St. Agnes Dianne Bergant, distinguished professor of Biblical Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and a former president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, points out that the Catholic “just war” teaching formulated to address conflict is an attempt to limit, not justify, an armed confrontation that appears to be inevitable.

  • Get on the Bus: ‘Keeping the bond alive’
    May 8, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    More than 200,000 children in California alone have a parent in prison. These often overlooked children are the hidden victims of crime and the unintended victims of the criminal justice system. Through no fault of their own, they find their parents taken from them, generating feelings of abandonment, shame, grief and even guilt.

    This year more than 1,100 children will be reunited with their parent in 11 different prisons throughout California with the help of the Get on the Bus Program. And once again, thousands of students in elementary and high schools of the Los Angeles Archdiocese help the Get on the Bus program by undertaking projects to help these children make the long and emotional trip to the prison.

  • College, university commencements set May 10-17
    May 8, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    n astronaut, a California state assemblymember, a U.S. State Department foreign policy advisor and a Catholic cardinal are among keynote speakers for commencement ceremonies at four local Catholic colleges this month.

    Former astronaut James Lovell will speak at Loyola Marymount University’s undergraduate commencement ceremony May 10, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Sunken Garden. Lovell — the command module pilot of Apollo 8 (the first manned mission to the moon in 1968) and commander of Apollo 13 that survived a harrowing ordeal in space in 1970 — will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from LMU at the commencement.

  • ‘Radiate LA’: A new website for evangelization, and more
    May 8, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    “A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.”

    Pope Francis shared those thoughts via Twitter on June 30, 2013. Now, a new website from a recently-created office of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is inviting people to a deeper love and appreciation for their Catholic faith.

  • May Day 2014 joins immigration reform with workers’ rights
    May 7, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Almost 1,000 people marched and rallied on May Day in Los Angeles — but not only for the traditional rights of workers.

    This year, with a Senate-passed bill stalled in the House of Representatives, an eclectic collection of groups also demonstrated loudly May 1 for immigration reform and stopping the deportation of undocumented immigrants. (Two smaller marches were held in a record-breaking hot downtown during the day.)

  • José Horacio Gómez: The Great Latino Hope
    May 3, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Upon first glance, José Horacio Gómez doesn’t look like one of the most important bishops in the U.S. Catholic Church. The soft-spoken, diminuitive, Mexican-born man often makes self-deprecating jokes about his height. “You probably didn’t see me arrive,” he says to his friends with a laugh.