‘Innocent children are getting killed’

“Free, free Palestine!”

“Gaza, Gaza don’t you cry! We will never let you die!”

Chanting, marching and waving flags, signs and banners in front of the Federal Building in Westwood, some 1,500 demonstrators protested Aug. 2 on behalf of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, site of violence and bloodshed in recent weeks.

Make time to pray

As I write, we are preparing for the Feast of the Transfiguration.

It’s a beautiful story, one of the “luminous mysteries” of our Lord’s earthly life, and we all know it well.

Jesus climbs the high mountain with three disciples and there they see him transfigured. His face shines like the sun. His clothes turn white as light. God’s voice from heaven commands them, “This is my beloved Son, listen to him.”

Migrants or refugees? The factors that push unaccompanied minors across the border

This past Sunday, Father Fidel Hernandez celebrated Mass for 200 undocumented children being detained at Port Hueneme Naval Base in Oxnard.

The children have been there since June. Immigration officials have been finding places of detention in various U.S. cities for the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the border in recent months. Most of the minors are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Dismas Ministry: Spreading God’s Word in prisons

There was a recurring pattern in many of the letters Ron Zeilinger received as a religious order’s fund development director in Wisconsin 15 years ago. Prison chaplains and inmates were requesting free Catholic Bibles and study courses “like the Protestants have.”

‘Help Save Rose Campaign’ creating magic to raise funds

A fundraiser to finance life-saving treatment for a young Monrovia girl blinded by a rare form of brain cancer will be held Aug. 16, 6 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, Monrovia.

The family of three-and-a-half-year-old Rose Hengehold is seeking experimental treatment for their daughter that is offered at a hospital in Houston. Rose’s parents, Joe and Alicia, are trying to raise $160,000 for the treatment that involves medication which needs approval from the FDA.

A cultural ‘window of opportunity’

Education and advocacy are needed now in a cultural “window of opportunity” to alert the majority of the population repulsed by the eugenics of the past to the near and present dangers of the “New Eugenics” movement, said Catholic leaders at the Bioethics and Eugenics Conference July 26 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

The Quica Project: A mission to make Catholic education available to every child

Maria Marcos Romo Gonzalez (also called “Quica”), the sister of Mexican martyr St. Toribio Romo Gonzalez, dedicated her life to enabling poor children, including her brother, to receive a Christ-centered education. The Quica project bears her name because our mission is to allow Spirit and Truth education available to every child.

‘Quicas’ among us: Following in the footsteps of Santo Toribio’s sister

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July 25, 2014
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Maria Marcos Romo Gonzalez, also called “Quica,” the sister of Mexican martyr St. Toribio Romo Gonzalez, dedicated her life to enabling poor children, including her brother, to receive a Christ-centered education.

‘A gun only has one purpose — and that’s to kill’

It’s an image St. Monica parishioner Suzanne Verge still has in her head, 35 years after the fact:

Peter in a half-wetsuit riding the foaming crest of a small breaking wave, his left foot inching towards the nose of an olive-green surfboard to hang five, left arm thrown back with hand curled for balance. The stoked look on his face — not really hot-dogging it, but a mixture of boyish joy, semi-guarded exhilaration and “I-can-handle-this, man.” No way this little-bitty SoCal wave was going to knock him down. Not now or any day of his easy going, perpetually happy, surfing-centered 18-year-old life. Wasn’t he working as a boxboy at Vons, saving every dollar he could stash away, so he could move to Hawaii and ride the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu?