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.

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.

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.

California bishops name ADLA pro-life director to top conference position

Speaker lineup for virtual LA Congress event announced

LA’s own Fr. Greg Boyle and Sister Norma Pimentel are among the major Catholic names headlining this year’s Los Angeles Religious Education Congress (REC), which is being held virtually for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Poet Amanda Gorman is a light to us all, parishioner says

Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a standing ovation from fellow parishioners of St. Brigid Church in Los Angeles for reciting a poem she wrote about the parish.

Virtual OneLife LA ties pro-life witness with racial justice, human compassion

After a year marked by racial protests and a pandemic that forced the annual OneLife LA celebration to go virtual, speakers at Southern California’s premier pro-life event emphasized links between abortion, racism and the erosion of compassion.