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LA parishes take hybrid approach to engage Catholics in pandemic Lent
Last year, the liturgical season of Lent was marked by an abrupt coronavirus-induced shutdown that forced parish life to go almost completely virtual in a matter of days.
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As LA’s COVID rates drop, more Catholic schools cautiously reopen
After emptying out of their families’ cars into the parking lot of St. Bernard School in Bellflower on March 3, the steady stream of students from kindergarten through sixth grade were met with a banner that included large red block letters: “WE’VE MISSED YOU!”
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The untold story of an LA priest’s brush with death in Africa
The bandits stepped from the roadside bushes and opened fire just as Father Aloysius Ezoenyeka finished praying the rosary. The pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Ventura was driving on a deserted highway as New Year’s Eve afternoon dimmed into evening, on the way from the airport in Lagos to visit his family in southeastern Nigeria.
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Archbishop Gomez blesses new Queen of Angels Center
Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated the first Mass at the new Queen of Angels Center for Priestly Formation during a Feb. 24 visit to bless the center’s campus.
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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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