• Cantwell-Sacred Heart students compete in Academic Decathlon
    March 14, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    MONTEBELLO — Competing for the second time in the Southern California Private Schools Academic Decathlon, Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary students won 46 individual and team medals last month, 16 of them gold.

  • MORE THAN 40,000 WILL ATTEND THIS WEEKEND THE LARGEST GATHERING OF CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES
    March 14, 2014  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    — During closing Mass, Archbishop José H. Gomez will bless children of undocumented parents and immigrants’ advocates who will travel to the Vatican More than …

  • 2014 LA Religious Ed Congress
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    I Will Lift My Eyes (Blessing over advocates of the undocumented, in their pilgramage to Rome)
    Song written by Tony Alonso, © 2014 GIA Publications, Inc.

  • St. Pat’s is not one for the Mass-es
    March 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Often forgotten in the revelry and merriment that have come to represent St. Patrick’s Day in the United States is that it is a holy day of obligation in Ireland. As such, for the truly Irish and Irish Catholic, the day is not so much about mass quantities as religious Mass.

  • Funeral Mass celebrated for fallen LAPD Officer
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    packed and somber assembly at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels witnessed the March 13 funeral Mass of fallen LAPD Officer Nicholas Choung Lee.

    The assembly included hundreds of fellow officers plus civic officials — among them, Gov. Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Archbishop José Gomez presided at the Mass, while Father Edward Dover, pastor of Holy Redeemer Church in Montrose — which Lee’s family attends — delivered the homily.

  • Catholic schools win ‘realignment’ suit against CIF
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Four parochial high schools (three of them Catholic) within Los Angeles and Ventura Counties were upheld March 7 in their lawsuit against the California Interscholastic Federation, and will not have to switch leagues that would have required their athletic teams to travel hundreds of extra miles over the course of the year.

  • 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.