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  • ‘Cesar Chavez’: A stirring biopic
    March 20, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    “Cesar Chavez: An American Hero,” director Diego Luna’s latest production, is a moving biography of the late civil rights activist, labor organizer and co-founder, with Dolores Huerta, of the United Farm Workers Union.

  • 2014 LA Religious Ed Congress
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    I Will Lift My Eyes (Blessing over advocates of the undocumented, in their pilgramage to Rome)
    Song written by Tony Alonso, © 2014 GIA Publications, Inc.

  • Funeral Mass celebrated for fallen LAPD Officer
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    packed and somber assembly at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels witnessed the March 13 funeral Mass of fallen LAPD Officer Nicholas Choung Lee.

    The assembly included hundreds of fellow officers plus civic officials — among them, Gov. Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Archbishop José Gomez presided at the Mass, while Father Edward Dover, pastor of Holy Redeemer Church in Montrose — which Lee’s family attends — delivered the homily.

  • Catholic schools win ‘realignment’ suit against CIF
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Four parochial high schools (three of them Catholic) within Los Angeles and Ventura Counties were upheld March 7 in their lawsuit against the California Interscholastic Federation, and will not have to switch leagues that would have required their athletic teams to travel hundreds of extra miles over the course of the year.

  • Jail chaplains: ‘See the face of Jesus in inmates’ faces’
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    A small group of chaplains ministering at Los Angeles County’s Twin Towers Jail entered the room and faced the inmate pods, where several of the incarcerated were already lining up at their pod doors to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday evening.

    Led by head Catholic chaplain Art Alvarez, the four female chaplain volunteers from San Gabriel Mission and Incarnation Church in Glendale would spend the next two hours distributing ashes on the foreheads of 350 men and women among those serving time at the seven-story correctional facility. Daytime chaplains had earlier distributed ashes to 300 inmates.

  • Saint Damien statue blessed at St. John’s
    March 13, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “Saint Damien with Leper Child,” by sculptor Dale Zarrella, is the newest artistic addition to St. John’s Seminary, celebrating the life of the priest who ministered to lepers in Molokai, Hawaii.

  • West Covina’s Labor of Love delivers holiday food to the homeless
    March 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, In The News  |  

    Sometimes love takes work.

    West Covina resident Shirley Mirador and her family come together every Christmas and Easter to show care in the form of a meal.

    Her nonprofit, Labor of Love, fed about 1,600 homeless people last year. Friends, family members and fellow parishioners crowd in at her own home to put together the meals.

  • St. Anthony Student Film Competes in San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
    March 7, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, In The News  |  

    Four students from St. Anthony High School’s Marine Science Academy will be in San Francisco this weekend where a movie they created about the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch will compete in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival’s 3rd Annual Student Film Competition.

  • ‘Health for All’ bill draws support from Catholic advocates
    March 6, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    While a controversial new bill to provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants in California has met with mixed reviews, Catholic advocates for accessible health care are hopeful for the passage of the Health For All Act.

  • At Loyola HS: ‘Empathy boxes’ to raise awareness of autism
    March 6, 2014  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “I’m so proud of you; we have to celebrate today,” says Cristina Faulkner, chairperson of Loyola High School’s Fine and Performing Arts Department, to the 11 mostly seniors in her Feb. 28 design class. It is 9:15 on a Friday morning, and the boys have gathered around a big box of donuts set on a wood table in a basement room.