• Immigrants Plan Trip To Vatican To Seek Pope’s Support For Immigration Reform
    March 17, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    A coalition of activists who want U.S. laws changed to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants is traveling to Rome Friday, hoping to meet with Pope Francis and enlist his help in their cause.

  • Thousands Flock to Anaheim for Massive Catholic Gathering
    March 16, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Thousands Flock to Anaheim for Massive Catholic Gathering
    Tens of thousands of people from across the country and other parts of the world were expected in Anaheim this weekend to attend the largest annual gathering of Catholics, the Religious Education Congress. Jane Yamamoto reports from Anaheim for the NBC4 News at 6 on Sunday, March 16, 2014.

  • L.A. archbishop gives blessing to group headed to Vatican
    March 16, 2014  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    ANAHEIM – The way 10-year-old Jersey Vargas sees it, the pope is the closest person to God.
    “I believe he can make a wish for us,” said the petite fourth-grader, the daughter of undocumented immigrants who will be traveling to Rome on Friday to personally deliver a message to Pope Francis from her and other children whose parents face deportation.
    Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez gave the San Fernando Valley student and others traveling with her his blessing, asking God to “give them the courage … as they stand with the poor in their struggle for dignity and justice. … And guide us to reform our immigration policies; that our country may live up to its spiritual promises of liberty and justice for all.”

  • 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.