• Jail chaplains: ‘See the face of Jesus in inmates’ faces’
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    A small group of chaplains ministering at Los Angeles County’s Twin Towers Jail entered the room and faced the inmate pods, where several of the incarcerated were already lining up at their pod doors to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday evening.

    Led by head Catholic chaplain Art Alvarez, the four female chaplain volunteers from San Gabriel Mission and Incarnation Church in Glendale would spend the next two hours distributing ashes on the foreheads of 350 men and women among those serving time at the seven-story correctional facility. Daytime chaplains had earlier distributed ashes to 300 inmates.

  • Saint Damien statue blessed at St. John’s
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “Saint Damien with Leper Child,” by sculptor Dale Zarrella, is the newest artistic addition to St. John’s Seminary, celebrating the life of the priest who ministered to lepers in Molokai, Hawaii.

  • Thousands mourn LAPD officer Nicholas Lee
    March 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    A Los Angeles police officer killed in a traffic crash was remembered Thursday as a mentor and loving father at a downtown service that drew thousands of mourners, including Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris.

    Nicholas Lee, 40, was the “quintessential police officer,” said Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, speaking to the more than 3,000 people that packed into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.

  • Catholic youth go for new-time religion
    March 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    t was part rock concert, part Catholic Church and all about religion Thursday at the Anaheim Convention Center with a deafening rally, Gospel-like music, loud stomping—and a call to tweet.

  • Archbishop Gomez marks three years of service to Los Angeles
    March 12, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    An audience of around 20 crowded onto the small set for the March 7 broadcast of “Diálogo de Fe,” a monthly Spanish-language radio and television program hosted by Archbishop José H. Gomez.

  • West Covina’s Labor of Love delivers holiday food to the homeless
    March 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, In The News  |  No Comment

    Sometimes love takes work.

    West Covina resident Shirley Mirador and her family come together every Christmas and Easter to show care in the form of a meal.

    Her nonprofit, Labor of Love, fed about 1,600 homeless people last year. Friends, family members and fellow parishioners crowd in at her own home to put together the meals.

  • St. Lawrence Martyr of Redondo Beach wins third straight junior high academic decathlon
    March 11, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The academic decathlon team at St. Lawrence Martyr School of Redondo Beach has made history by pulling off a three-peat, once again prevailing over more than 100 regional competitors in the Academic Junior High Decathlon sponsored by Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

  • St. Anthony Student Film Competes in San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
    March 7, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, In The News  |  No Comment

    Four students from St. Anthony High School’s Marine Science Academy will be in San Francisco this weekend where a movie they created about the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch will compete in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival’s 3rd Annual Student Film Competition.

  • ArtExchange exhibit features prisoners in a new light
    March 6, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Nicolassa Galvez, CEO of the ArtExchange left, and Amalia Molina, of the Office of Restorative Justice right, talk about the art as the ArtExchange is hosting an exhibition in collaboration with the Office of Restorative Justice of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles that will showcase artwork by various artists who have been or are currently in prisons and jails throughout California in Long Beach, CA. February 27, 2014. Artwork will be for sale, proceeds will fund programs for children whose parents are jailed and inmate re-entry support. The show opens to the public March 8.(Thomas R. Cordova/Press-Telegram/Daily Breeze)

  • ‘Health for All’ bill draws support from Catholic advocates
    March 6, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    While a controversial new bill to provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants in California has met with mixed reviews, Catholic advocates for accessible health care are hopeful for the passage of the Health For All Act.