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  • Blessed Junípero Serra: California’s first saint
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Just after canonizing the first saint of Sri Lanka, St. Joseph Vaz, Pope Francis announced that he would also be canonizing the first saint of California — Junípero Serra.

  • Archbishop leads state legislature in prayer
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    He thanked lawmakers for “everything you do to promote human dignity and justice for the poor and the vulnerable in our society.”

  • A school grows in La Puente
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “You have to impart on those third-graders that the atom is a real human train. I know if I take two or more atoms and they bond, it makes a molecule. You’ve probably heard it from me before, in a water drop there are millions of molecules. And every molecule is at least two atoms bonded together.”

  • Catholic Education Foundation appoints new executive director
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Archbishop José H. Gomez and Timothy J. Smith, president of the board of trustees of the Catholic Education Foundation, announced a new executive director Jan. 12. Kathleen M. Ash, who had been the associate dean of the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University, began serving the foundation this month.

  • Changes ahead for Office of Religious Education
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Following nearly three decades of service, Sister Edith Prendergast, RSC, will be retiring as director of the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education, effective June 30. She will be succeeded by Father Chris Bazyouros.

  • OneLife Los Angeles
    January 22, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    A march for all human life from conception to natural death.

  • Thousands march to support human dignity in downtown LA
    January 20, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Thousands marched through the streets of downtown Los Angeles for OneLife LA, an event promoting human

  • Dr. Maher Hathout
    January 16, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Dr. Maher Hathout’s death earlier this month creates a void in the Los Angeles interfaith community, for he was not only one of the early leaders of interfaith dialogue in our city, but was also the titular head of the Muslim community here. Early on in my own endeavors in this arena, I was impressed by his eloquence, wisdom, warmth, call for critical thinking in Islam and quiet sense of humor.

  • Remembering Selma: Love trumps hate at historic voting rights march in 1965
    January 16, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “Trying to remember 50 years ago,” said Patrice Underwood with a chuckle, letting her words fade away, before adding, “but it had such an impact on me, I can remember a lot of it.”

  • Human trafficking in Los Angeles
    January 16, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    During a recent overcast morning in L.A.’s Koreatown, about 250 men, women and children from all walks of life — including students, families, business professionals and Catholic religious sisters — marched along a two-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in the name of freedom from human trafficking. One of the people on hand for this year’s “Walk 4 Freedom” — presented by the L.A. Metro Taskforce on Human Trafficking, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) and Southern California Partners for Global Justice — knows the reality of human trafficking all too well. With her positive demeanor, Udaya Kanthi Salgadu, 37, hardly seems like a survivor of human trafficking and indentured servitude.