• Cathedral wins CIF-SS Division 4 volleyball title – 05/30/14
    May 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Cathedral High School of Los Angeles won its third straight CIF-Southern Section Division 4 volleyball title May 24 with an exciting four-set victory over Bishop Montgomery of Torrance.

  • CASA Universitaria: Higher education comes to Compton
    May 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “Education, the path to change; education, an important part of social justice; education, the foundation for success; education, a way to improve the quality of life, based on grassroots needs.”

  • School gardens: A growing trend
    May 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    The fourth grader ran to show his teacher the spring green insect he had just plucked from the plant bed, the first caterpillar ever found in the garden at Nativity School in El Monte.

    Jenny Reyes and her class of 21 fourth grade students were in front of the school this May 22 morning, tending to six raised beds planted with snow peas, carrots, cucumbers and flowers.

  • 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.