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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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Cathedral exhibit brings 250 years of LA Catholic history to life
Standing outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on an overcast morning, Sister M. Anncarla Costello and Father Parker Sandoval were asked whose idea it was to have them co-curate the cathedral’s new, sprawling “250 Years of Mission” exhibit?
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Archbishop asks LA priests to be vaccinated
Archbishop José H. Gomez is requesting that priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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Acclaimed LA Catholic artist John August Swanson passes at 83
In his own humble words, John August Swanson once called his distinct narrative artwork “my most social act.”
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Over 250 years, Mission San Gabriel has endured every kind of test
In May 2018, I spontaneously decided to begin walking the roughly 800-mile California Mission Trail. With a lot of prayer, support from my family and friends at the California Mission Walkers, I finished in June 2020.
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LA Archdiocese aims to evangelize through jubilee ‘pilgrimage sites’
Thanks to Mission San Gabriel’s 250th birthday celebration this year, Los Angeles is getting the closest thing to a local “Camino Real” since the days of the first Spanish missionaries.
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It’s time to start telling the truth about St. Junípero Serra
Misinformation and deliberate disinformation continue to surround the memory of St. Junípero Serra, the Apostle of California.