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NCYC plans West Coast expansion with Long Beach event this fall
Over the last decade, the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) — the largest Catholic youth event in the United States — has made itself at home in the centrally located city of Indianapolis every two years.
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Can California’s Catholics rally to defeat Prop 1?
The morning of Saturday, Oct. 1, some 2,500 Catholics descended on Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove to pray for their state.
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LA priests reflect on racism during task force presentation
When Father John Maria Vianney arrived to the U.S. from his native India more than 20 years ago, the welcome he received was not always a warm one.
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Mission pastor defends St. Junípero’s legacy at Ventura board meeting
The pastor of Mission Basilica San Buenaventura voiced his concerns to Ventura County officials about “inaccurate, inflammatory testimony” targeting the legacy of St. Junípero Serra that led to the removal of the Franciscan missionary’s likeness from the county seal earlier this year.
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Archbishop Gomez calls Catholics to generosity, prayer at immigration Mass
Earlier this year, Rosie Shawver accepted an invitation to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to help migrants awaiting asylum hearings. The LA-based executive director of the Catholic Association for Latino Leadership (CALL) made the trip with her daughter, bringing clothes and toiletries to Mexicali, Baja California.
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What kind of catechists do we need today?
Long before he became pope and took the name John Paul I, Albino Luciani was already a gifted catechist. Although he earned a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, he had the charism of expressing the truth of faith in the simplest of ways.
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Marian pilgrim image from Mexico returns to LA after pandemic pause
The pilgrim image of Our Lady of San Juan de Los Lagos is currently traveling through the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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Mission San Gabriel closes jubilee year, reveals restored church
Two years ago, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was hit with what pastor Father John Molyneux, CMF, calls “a double punch”: First, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 that kept faithful away from the sacraments — and one another — for months; then, a mysterious fire that gutted the mission church, Christianity’s oldest outpost in what is now the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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Bishop Wilkerson named interim vicar for San Fernando Region
Bishop Gerald Wilkerson will serve as interim episcopal vicar for the San Fernando Pastoral Region, Archbishop José H. Gomez announced Sept. 8.
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Jubilee Mass to mark the revival of a restored Mission San Gabriel
The Stations of the Cross are being hung on the wall as sound speakers are being wired in. The pews are getting bolted down as the paint is getting touched up.
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