• Nativity receives Innovations in Catholic Education Award
    April 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    “We’re just a little school in El Monte so getting this national attention is such an honor,” says Sister of St. Louis Stacy Reineman, principal at Nativity Elementary School, one of 12 recipients of the 2014 Innovations in Catholic Education Awards from Today’s Catholic Teacher.

  • St. Lawrence Martyr rakes 3rd at State Junior High Decathlon
    April 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    St. Lawrence Martyr School, of Redondo Beach earned third place at the 2014 California State Academic Junior High Decathlon, held April 5 at Aquinas High School in San Bernardino.

    Serra Catholic School, from the Diocese of Orange, won the event which featured nine teams from junior high schools throughout California, plus a team invited from Denver. St. Lawrence Martyr represented the Archdiocese of Los Angeles after the team’s third consecutive winning performance in the local competition March 1.

  • The beatitude of the persecuted
    April 10, 2014  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    This Sunday we begin Holy Week. Our Lenten journey has led us to the final hours of Our Lord’s life, in which he suffered torture and death on the Cross.

    All through his ministry, Jesus had prepared his disciples for his Passion. He told them that he would have to suffer many things, that he would be rejected, insulted, humiliated and killed.

  • This month, let us all call for immigration reform
    April 10, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    April is Immigration Awareness Month. I invite you in these next few weeks to move into deeper reflection, solidarity and year-round action on behalf of those sisters and brothers who are greatly in need of fair and just immigration reform.

    On April 4, I took part in an interfaith prayer service at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, along with members of the Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders at the invitation of Archbishop José Gómez.

  • ‘His music rose to God in blessing and in praise’
    April 10, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Paul Salamunovich began his role as music director at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in North Hollywood when my twin brother and I were in the eighth grade at St. Charles School —in 1949. Over these 65 years it has been a privilege to have known Paul and to experience his extraordinary music genius on so many occasions, both at the parish and in many other venues where he directed choirs.

  • Water conservation: High school video sends a message
    April 10, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Using the digital tools of their generation, members of Immaculate Heart High School’s Earth Club decided to make a humorous video with a timely message highlighting simple tips on how to conserve water in this third consecutive year of California’s drought.

    Earth Club co-historians Christina Roh, videographer, and Emma Weeks, video “news anchor,” joined with seven other club board members in the project to raise awareness about water conservation in light of the state’s three-year rain deficits, low-reservoir levels and sub-par snowpack.

  • CEF Senior Mass honors 650 students
    April 9, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  No Comment

    The accomplishments of hundreds of graduating high school seniors — recipients of tuition assistance from the Catholic Education Foundation — were celebrated during a Mass April 9 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • ANNUAL MASS AT CATHEDRAL CELEBRATES 800 COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS
    April 9, 2014  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    Hundreds of college-bound seniors from some of the poorest communities in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles packed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels …

  • Arzobispo de LA celebra legado de César Chávez con misa en español
    April 6, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    El arzobispo de Los Ángeles celebró hoy una misa en español en la catedral de la ciudad para honrar el legado del líder campesino César Chávez, durante un oficio que contó con la presencia de algunos de sus familiares y de representantes de los trabajadores agrícolas.

    En la misa, a la que asistió Paul Chávez, hijo del histórico líder, el arzobispo José Gómez destacó el compromiso de Chávez “con la lucha por la justicia y dignidad de todos los trabajadores”.

  • Cesar Chavez’s family to attend Mass to celebrate his life
    April 5, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The family of Cesar Chavez will attend an annual Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Sunday to celebrate the life and work of the late labor leader.

    The Mass, now in its 14th year, will be celebrated beginning at 12:30 p.m. and led by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez. Chavez’s son, Paul Chavez, and Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers union founded by Chavez, are scheduled to speak at the close of the celebration.

    The family of Cesar Chavez will attend an annual Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Sunday to celebrate the life and work of the late labor leader.

    The Mass, now in its 14th year, will be celebrated beginning at 12:30 p.m. and led by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez. Chavez’s son, Paul Chavez, and Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers union founded by Chavez, are scheduled to speak at the close of the celebration.