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Annual Mass honors high school seniors and teachers for outstanding community service
Coming from a big family, high school senior Karen Galicia is used to looking after other children. It was a natural fit when she started volunteering at a local recreational center, bringing in her own art supplies and coloring books to entertain children.
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Sagrado Corazon breaks ground for new church
Sagrado Corazon and Santa Maria de Guadalupe Church in Cudahy is a faith-filled community where worshippers attend Mass in an outdoor church they call “the annex.” The largely immigrant parishioners flock to the annex to hear the gospel each Sunday despite not having a building with four walls, sometimes weathering rain, cold or fiercely hot summers. Fortunately, the community will not have to worship in these conditions much longer.
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L.A. area workshops to focus on immigrant rights and emergency preparedness for immigrant families
In the light of recent changes on national immigration policies which have raised fears and anxieties among families and communities of various backgrounds, a series of workshops will be taking place in the Greater Los Angeles area this week focusing on rights of immigrants.
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At Cantwell Sacred Heart: Student-athletes let their actions speak
They are both gifted student-athletes at Cantwell Sacred Heart High School in Montebello who also happen to be polite, well-mannered and, quite honestly, not especially comfortable talking about themselves or their exploits, on or off the field.
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Msgr. Jeremiah Timothy Murphy, priest for more than 50 years, dies at 79
Msgr. Jeremiah Timothy Murphy, a faithful servant of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles known for his love for the priesthood, rigorous intellectual life and unfailing work as a parish priest despite being confined to a wheelchair, died on March 1 surrounded by family and friends. He was 79 years old.
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Archdiocese of L.A. elementary students invited to take part in Our Lady of Fatima art contest
Students from grades 1 through 8 in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are invited to participate in the Our Lady Fatima art contest in honor of the 100th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Mother at Fatima. The winner will receive a $100 cash prize.
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Embrace trust in a thirsting, divided world, says Congress keynote speaker Msgr. Raymond East
Day two of the 2017 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress kicked off with prayer and praise, as musicians from Catholic Relief Services and Oregon Catholic Press led the crowd in a lively morning prayer service in Anaheim, California.
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Youth Day at 2017 Religious Education Congress
Cathy Alba, a senior at St. Lucy’s Priory High School in Glendora, attended her first Los Angeles Youth Day with her youth group from St. Paul the Apostle Church in Chino Hills.
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Encountering Christ at the U.S.-Mexico border
I was a 20-year-old college seminarian when my formation director invited me to participate in my first public demonstration. The date was May 1, 2006. Facebook and Twitter were only infants at the time. If there had been such a thing as hashtags, #DayWithoutImmigrants would have been trending nationwide.
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Pope encourages popular movements to help stop dehumanization
Pope Francis gave strong words of encouragement to the more than 600 members of grassroots organizations gathered for the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements conference Feb. 16-19.
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