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Archbishop ‘deeply disappointed’ by Planned Parenthood fundraiser at LMU
A controversial fundraiser for the nation’s largest abortion provider is going ahead as scheduled on the grounds of the largest Catholic university in Southern California, despite thousands of protests lodged by concerned Catholics and others.
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Family honors slain Marine at East LA ‘Dia de los Muertos’ event
Juan Carlos Lopez paused to run his fingers lightly over a wooden rosary draped over a framed photograph of his nephew, Hunter Lopez, who was dressed in his formal Marine Corps uniform.
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LA’s local synodal process aims to draw ‘as many voices as possible’
In early October, Pope Francis officially launched a two-year process of listening and discernment that calls for the participation of every one of the world’s 3,000-plus Catholic dioceses under the title, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission.”
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Guadalupe pilgrim images make whirlwind stop on Catalina Island
A joyous procession of prayerful hymns and enthusiastic chanting rang through the tiny residential streets of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island as the sun was about to go behind the central ridge on a late Friday afternoon. It was made up of a mix of some 100 visitors from the mainland and their newfound friends who followed behind framed images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego secured to the back of utility trucks.
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Why young people have a head start on the new synod
At a recent retreat for our parish school’s seventh- and eighth-graders, I was surprised to find the teachers asking the students about their faith and listening closely to their answers.
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2021 pilgrimage schedule for Guadalupe, St. Juan Diego images
The pilgrim images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego have begun their annual tour through the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, with a kick-off celebration at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Oct. 22. The images’ first stop is at St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, where they were welcomed with a parish procession and Mass celebrated by Bishop Marc Trudeau.
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Vatican formalizes process for approving liturgical translations
Four years after Pope Francis modified canon law to emphasize the responsibility of bishops’ conferences for judging the accuracy and suitability of liturgical translations and adaptations, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments published an executive decree formalizing the new process.
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Ask God for courage to defend ‘the voiceless,’ says nuncio at LA Red Mass
Preaching at LA’s 39th annual “Red Mass,” the pope’s ambassador to the United States called on members of the legal community to defend the voiceless of society even in the face of political pressure or the threat of being “cancelled.”
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Diego’s miracle: The lives saved by one man’s battle with cancer
Diego sat up wearily in the hospital bed that had been a position of purgatory for him too many times already.
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Archbishop Gomez encourages next generation of Catholic students at Thomas Aquinas College
At a 50th anniversary celebration for Thomas Aquinas College, Archbishop José H. Gomez encouraged students to “recover the truth of the imago Dei, the truth that creation and history have a divine direction and purpose.”
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