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  • Hundreds attend annual Requiem Mass for the Unborn
    January 30, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “Tonight we come together … to pray for the unborn and to ask for the grace and courage to stand for life,” Archbishop José H. Gomez said in his welcoming remarks to worshipers gathered in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown Los Angeles the evening of Jan. 24 for the annual Requiem for the Unborn Mass.

  • LMU Center for Catholic Education aims to enrich area Catholic schools, increase access, support learners
    January 26, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Carmen Villasenor Santiago felt lost when her family came to the U.S. from Mexico one summer in the mid-2000s. She was heading into the sixth grade. “It tore apart the world I knew,” she said. She had a difficult time navigating a new country and new language.

  • 15,000 march for human dignity
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The first annual OneLife LA, heralded as a celebration of the dignity of every human life from conception to natural death, drew thousands from all over Southern California to Downtown Los Angeles.

  • Requiem for the Unborn set for Jan. 24
    January 23, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    People of all ages from across the archdiocese are expected to fill the pews at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown Los Angeles 6 p.m. Jan. 24 for the annual Requiem for the Unborn Mass.

  • 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.