Immaculate Heart Radio to begin broadcasting Nov. 17

An ex-prostitute sat stuck in Bay Area rush-hour traffic. She was overwhelmed by debt. It was impossible to repay now that she’d given up the life.

The pressure led to her attempted suicide.

Her car idled.

Looking up, she read “Immaculate Heart Radio” on a car’s bumper sticker. She thought of the few times her father had taken her to Mass as a little girl. Her curiosity piqued, she tuned in.

Preventing Cyber Crime: Community rallies to protect children

More than 400 educators, parents, and middle and high school students from across the archdiocese attended the sixth Annual Cyber Crime Prevention Symposium at the California Endowment Center in downtown L.A. on Oct. 29 to learn up-to-date information about staying safe online and how to avoid Internet predators, cyber bullies, malicious apps and more.

Louisville junior’s ‘Open the Door’ wins national PSA award

The PSA begins with a girl in a white blouse turning a corner and slowly walking between lockers down a high school hallway. She has a shy expression that becomes more concerned as she goes by doors with posted black jagged letters saying “Bullied,” “Anorexic,” “Anxiety” and “Depression.”

Praying for the dead

Janeen Caudillo was a beautiful, spirited and loving young woman who devoted her life to “my kids” — the boys and girls she represented and protected as a professional social worker.

CEF’s Christmas Card Contest winners

“My aunt’s a great artist also,” said Allison Buss-Mercado. The 1st-grader at St. Paschal Baylon School in Thousand Oak knows well of what she speaks. She took first prize in the Catholic Education Foundation’s (CEF) 2014 Christmas Card Contest for students, in the category of grades kindergarten-3rd.

Changes at ‘The Tidings’

The Tidings will be undergoing a restructuring that will regretfully include staff reductions from its editorial and business operations.

Those reductions include beloved members of our award-winning staff: Mike Nelson, editor; Paula Doyle, staff writer; Hermine Lees, former editor of the directory; Jorge Infante, designer; and accountants Alejandra Hernandez and Theresa Goldner.

Cathedral hosts 32nd annual Red Mass honoring legal professionals

Scores of lawyers, judicial and public officials, and other legal professionals were on hand at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels the afternoon of Oct. 21 for the 32nd annual Red Mass, celebrated by Archbishop José Gomez in honor of their “service to our society,” as the archbishop noted in his welcoming remarks.

Dido and Aeneas/Bluebeard’s Castle at the L.A. Opera

I’m enthralled by the late opera singer Maria Callas — her voice, her life. I also have a thing for the somewhat obscure German contralto Emmi Leisner (1885-1958). But perhaps like many of us, I’ve always thought of opera as a high-brow version of the musical, which, with the exception of Fred Astaire movies, I pretty much can’t stand.

‘Love fully revealed’ at Our Lady of the Angels Congress

“Real love reveals itself in what we do, what we sacrifice, what we create for the real persons whom we love. So we know we are loved not by feelings of attraction, but by the many, many things that others do for us and we do for them,” pointed out Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark during the opening of the Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) Regional Congress on Oct. 25.

Dia de los Muertos: ‘It’s very important to talk about death’

For many children residing in East Los Angeles, death could be part of their daily lives.

Death is depicted on street murals in the neighborhood. Death can happen to a next door neighbor who is walking on the street. Death can come to a bellowed family member — “abuelito,” “abuelita,” “tío,” “tia.”