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COVID vaccines part of LA priests’ front-line pandemic work
The clergy of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (ADLA) are far from immune to the challenges of securing coronavirus vaccines these days.
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Altadena fifth graders discover power of prayer after classmate’s shooting
When Dallas McGowan, a fifth-grader at St. Elizabeth of Hungary School in Altadena, found out his best friend and classmate Mario Ramirez had been shot, he was, according to his mother Denise, “shocked.”
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SoCal’s newest basilica is ready to show off its makeover
Since being named a minor basilica by Pope Francis last summer, Mission San Buenaventura has been quietly getting a major makeover.
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People missed the crowds but say virtual congress offerings still valuable
Like the national March for Life, bigness as well as personal interactions are a huge part of the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, the largest single Catholic gathering in the United States.
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First-ever virtual REC offers answers for a world ‘hungry for the truth’
From Pope Francis’ opening message urging “commitment, strength and dedication” in building a post-pandemic “tomorrow,” to Archbishop José H. Gomez’s closing homily reminding of “our duty in this moment to proclaim the truth of the divine,” the all-virtual 2021 Religious Education Congress (REC) sought to stake out a unique place in the 65-year history of the event.
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New film to tell story of SoCal’s ‘bishop of the barrio’
A new documentary on Venerable Bishop Alphonse Gallegos, a California pastor and auxiliary bishop of Sacramento, will air on EWTN Feb. 20 at 2:30 p.m. LA time, just in time for what would have been the bishop’s 90th birthday.
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How PPP funding helped one parish weather the 2020 pandemic
If last year’s Paycheck Protection Program was like a matching grant, prompting recipients to stretch resources in order to maintain payroll and stay afloat during the pandemic spring, then it achieved that goal, according to one participating church.
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What LA’s Catholic schools have learned about reopening during COVID
All things considered, Debbie Marquez didn’t realize how much she missed certain sounds.
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In Boyle Heights, two schools with different pulses
Two Catholic elementary schools separated by less than two miles in Boyle Heights illustrate how in the times of COVID-19, no two schools are the same.
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Amid pandemic, LA’s annual Mass for the sick finds a deeper meaning
As COVID-19 kept all but a handful of people from gathering in the vast Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral on February 13, a Catholic order with a thousand-year history of care for the sick co-hosted the annual Day of the Sick Mass.
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