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At Immaculate Conception: The First Lady and the Pope
The 1987 visit of Pope John Paul II to Los Angeles offered many memorable moments — not the least of which took place at Immaculate Conception School, in downtown Los Angeles next to the former Chancery office.
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‘EL MATRIMONIO Y LA FAMILIA SON EL CAMINO DE LA IGLESIA’
Recientemente, en el Día Mundial del Matrimonio, el Arzobispo Gomez felicitó y bendijo a más de cien parejas que celebraron de 25 a 50 y 75 años de haber recibido el sacramento eclesiástico.
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Mary Star of the Sea High School selected for NFL’s Super Bowl High School Honor Roll
Mary Star of the Sea High School in San Pedro has been selected for the National Football League’s Super Bowl High School Honor Roll, an initiative that recognizes schools and communities for their contributions to Super Bowl history and for positively impacting the game of football.
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Local Catholic student named CA National Geographic State Bee semifinalist
An eighth-grader from St. Paschal Baylon School in Thousand Oaks is traveling to Fresno for the 2016 California National Geographic State Bee after winning the school bee competition.
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San Gabriel Mission High School raises more than $5,000 for Dominican sisters
On Feb. 12, San Gabriel Mission High School raised more than $5,000 in a Dominican Day dance-a-thon, an annual school fundraiser for the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. All monies raised went to purchase mattresses for the sisters’ Mother House.
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Partners in Service honorees: A wide range of ministries
Every day in Ventura County scores of faithful Catholic parishioners go about the business of serving others in the community. As they give of their time, these women and men mirror the image of God by their selfless work and dedication.
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Religious Ed Congress: Still growing, a half century later
The Super Bowl wasn’t yet called the Super Bowl when it was first played on Sunday, January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was, rather, the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game” between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.
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Immigration Summit launches parish-based initiative to help permanent residents obtain U.S. citizenship
When Teresa Alvarado was growing up as one of 13 siblings in a small town called Jalostotitlan in Jalisco, Mexico, tragedy struck suddenly and upended their lives forever. Her father’s lifetime of work literally went up in smoke when the family’s small shoe shop — and their only source of income — was completely destroyed in a fire.
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Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘Dead-Man-Walking’ journey
“They killed a man with fire one night. They strapped him in a wooden chair and pumped electricity through his body until he was dead. His killing was a legal act because he had killed. No religious leaders protested his killing that night. But I was there. I saw it with my own eyes. What I saw set my soul on fire, a fire that burns me still. And now here is an account of how I came to be and still am.”
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Thousands celebrate God’s ‘boundless mercy’ at Religious Education Congress
ANAHEIM — At the closing Mass, before thousands who crowded the Anaheim Convention Center Arena Feb. 28, Archbishop José H. Gomez challenged Religious Education Congress attendees to be God’s mercy to everyone they meet.
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