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  • ‘Healing Our City’ from gun violence
    June 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Suzanne Verge-Peak, president of the L.A. chapter of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence, was the first to ring the gold bell — a hard pull in memory of brother Peter Verge. Peter was 18, she 15, when he was shot and killed two weeks before Christmas in 1978, just a mile from their Santa Monica home.

    Stepping forward, a gray-haired woman in a jean jacket and pants said, “I ring the bell for my daughter Wendy, who was murdered. She was in the prime of her life. She died in New Mexico, where she was raised. It’s been a while. But coming together with the group here brings it all …,” she struggled to finish, but couldn’t.

  • Called to serve: The St. Thomas the Apostle Formation Class of 2014
    June 5, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Archbishop José Gomez will ordain 15 men to the Sacred Order of Deacon on June 7 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

    Those to be ordained and their wives have undergone a five-year period of formation in preparation for ministry in their parishes. The formation process integrates academic, pastoral and spiritual dimensions towards forming deacons and their wives in ministries of word, liturgy and charity.

  • CIMA honors excellence in storytelling at awards ceremony
    June 5, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    With seagulls flying above and the sound of the surf below, attendees at this year’s Catholic in Media Associates (CIMA) awards were greeted by a picture perfect Southern California backdrop for the group’s annual Mass, reception and ceremonies held in Pacific Palisades.

    Now in its 22nd year, CIMA presented its yearly awards honoring excellence in media, with the feature film “The Monuments Men,” the feature documentary “Cesar’s Last Fast” and the television news program “CBS News Sunday Morning” receiving accolades for stories with uplifting messages that promote positive messages and themes.

  • New priests urged to ‘be men of patience, mercy, love, hope’
    June 4, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    When Rosa Sahagun learned that her nephew Juan Ochoa wanted to become a priest, she felt immensely proud — and fiercely protective. As a surrogate mother, who helped raise him after his parents passed away when he was a young teen, “I have always supported him, to help him have confidence in himself,” she said.

    “He has always had the support of his entire family, and wherever he is, he will always be with us — and now we will stand by him as a priest.”

  • LA archdiocese runs CNA news wire service exclusively
    June 3, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The nation’s largest archdiocese, Los Angeles, has chosen Catholic News Agency to provide U.S. and global news for its archdiocesan publications, “Vida Nueva” and “The Tidings.”

    “For an archdiocese as large as Los Angeles, we rely very heavily on a wire service that can provide for us reporting on national and international events,” editor-in-chief, J.D. Long-García told CNA.

  • Cathedral wins CIF-SS Division 4 volleyball title – 05/30/14
    May 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Cathedral High School of Los Angeles won its third straight CIF-Southern Section Division 4 volleyball title May 24 with an exciting four-set victory over Bishop Montgomery of Torrance.

  • CASA Universitaria: Higher education comes to Compton
    May 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “Education, the path to change; education, an important part of social justice; education, the foundation for success; education, a way to improve the quality of life, based on grassroots needs.”

  • School gardens: A growing trend
    May 29, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The fourth grader ran to show his teacher the spring green insect he had just plucked from the plant bed, the first caterpillar ever found in the garden at Nativity School in El Monte.

    Jenny Reyes and her class of 21 fourth grade students were in front of the school this May 22 morning, tending to six raised beds planted with snow peas, carrots, cucumbers and flowers.

  • New L.A. priests: ‘Humbled and honored to be called’
    May 28, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    Two native Angelenos, a New Yorker and a Mexican-born Juan Diego House seminarian will be ordained May 31 to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

    Archbishop José Gomez will ordain Fathers Andrew Chung, Christopher Felix, Juan Ochoa and John Palmer in a morning Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. All have completed their theological formation at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, including year-long internships at parishes throughout the archdiocese, and recently completed service as transitional deacons.

  • Malta L.A. group makes Lourdes pilgrimage
    May 22, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Knights, Dames and volunteers from the Los Angeles Location of the Order of Malta recently travelled on their annual week-long pilgrimage to Lourdes.

    Each year, the Los Angeles group joins up with other members of the United States Western Association of the Order of Malta forming a group in excess of 300, and journeys to the location where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared 18 times to St. Bernadette in 1858. The pilgrimage is shared with 50 malades (French for “sick”) from California and other Western states searching for spiritual and even physical healing.