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  • PEREGRINACIÓN DE LAS IMÁGENES DE LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE
    November 15, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    La Arquidiócesis Católica de Los Ángeles informa que a partir del 21 octubre en la Regional pastoral de Santa Bárbara inicia la acostumbrada peregrinación de las imágenes de la Virgen de Guadalupe y San Juan Diego por varias parroquias de sus cinco regionales pastorales.

  • New program for baptism preparation offered online
    November 15, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    In early December, the archdiocesan Office for Worship will launch a new program (offered in both Spanish and English) to help better prepare parents and godparents of infants for the sacrament of baptism.

  • Black Catholics in today’s Church
    November 15, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Catholicism was all around me,” recalled Anderson Shaw on a recent early November morning. The director of the African American Catholic Center for Evangelization was sitting behind a desk in his small office in St. Eugene’s rectory in South Los Angeles. “Although my mother was a devout Southern Baptist — she read the Bible every day from front to back ’til the day she died — she sent me to Catholic school to get a better education.”

  • Polls: Mater Dei (football), Marymount (volleyball) atop D-1
    October 31, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    With one more week of regular season play remaining, the CIF-Southern Section weekly rankings, issued Oct. 30, show very little movement in any of the fall sports.

  • Girls volleyball: 29 local Catholic schools reach CIF playoffs
    October 30, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Catholic high schools are represented in nine of the 10 divisions that comprise the CIF-Southern Section girls’ volleyball championships that begin Oct. 31 with first round matches.

  • Girls’ tennis: CIF successes after the Fernandez family
    October 27, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    As noted in a recent Angelus News article (Sept. 8), the Fernandez family of Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance made history in the 1970s when four sisters (twins Anna Maria and Anna Lucia, and twins Cecilia and Elisa) who were coached by their mother Dolores captured individual and team championships in the CIF-Southern Section girls’ tennis tournament.

  • Los Angeles ACCW spreads the light of Christ
    October 27, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The Los Angeles Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women (ACCW) held its 66th conference — titled “Spreading the Light of Christ” — Oct. 10 at the Quiet Cannon in Montebello, where more than 450 women (and a few men) gathered from across the archdiocese to hear keynote speaker Bishop Robert Barron.

  • Honoring the departed at upcoming Día de los Muertos celebrations
    October 26, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    he faithful from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are invited to remember deceased loved ones by participating in Día de los Muertos (All Souls’ Day) celebrations on Saturday, Oct. 28, at Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard, and on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles.

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe annual pilgrimage begins in Ventura County
    October 25, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    In celebration of the 486th anniversary of the miraculous apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego, this year “La Peregrina,” a pilgrim image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, began its annual archdiocesan pilgrimage at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Ojai on Oct. 21.

  • Making Waves: Karen Gaffney is a champion for those with Down syndrome
    October 18, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Karen Gaffney is obsessed with Broadway. It’s no surprise her favorite musical is “Wicked.” The curtain-dropping number is sung by Elphaba, the odd, avoided, green-skinned girl who sings, “I’m through with playing by the rules of someone else’s game. … It’s time to try defying gravity.”