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  • Inspiration from Kobe memorial propels Bishop Mora team to historic run
    March 10, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Profound sadness and bittersweet hope filtered through song and testimony during the recent Kobe and Gianna Bryant Celebration of Life event at Staples Center. Yet as they experienced all that firsthand, a group of students, coaches, and faculty at Bishop Mora Salesian High School appear to have harnessed that energy to propel its boys basketball team on a historic run.

  • Archdiocese issues Mass restrictions as coronavirus fears spread
    March 7, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    As more coronavirus (COVID-19) cases are reported in the U.S., the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has issued new directives, just days after distributing initial guidelines. The updated precautions have placed certain restrictions on the celebration of the Mass.

  • San Bernardino kicks off extended welcome for new bishop
    March 1, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    In his nearly nine years as auxiliary bishop in Chicago, people warned Bishop Alberto Rojas that something like this might happen.

  • Archdiocese releases guidelines amid coronavirus concerns
    March 1, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    As concerns mount about the spread of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is urging faithful to use “common sense” in liturgies, including approaching practices such as shaking hands at the sign of peace, holding hands during the Lord’s prayer, and receiving communion on the tongue, with caution.

  • Doers of the Word: Meet the 2020 Cardinal’s award honorees
    February 27, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first Cardinal’s Awards Dinner, which every year since 1990 has celebrated “extraordinary Catholics.” On Saturday, Feb. 29, six Cardinal’s Award recipients will be honored at the event, which is expected to bring more than 900 guests to the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

  • Catholic ministry brings homicide survivors to forgive
    February 12, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    On an early Saturday afternoon in December 2019, Tomas and Juanita Bonilla were sitting at a table outside the cafeteria of Dolores Mission School in Boyle Heights to talk about a group that no one wants to be a part of.

  • ‘Kobe Generation’ priests beat seminarians in LA vocations matchup
    February 9, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Each wearing his prized black Kobe Bryant Lakers jersey with the No. 24 emblazoned on both sides, Father Andrew Chung of St. Pancratius Church in Panorama City and Father Fidelis Omeaku of St. Mary Magdalen Church in Camarillo stood in front of a tribute shrine set up on the stage behind the south basket at the Chaminade College Prep gym in Chatsworth last Friday night.

  • Story of first U.S. black priest takes the stage in LA
    February 5, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Leonardo Defilippis, the president and founder of Saint Luke Productions in the state of Washington, remembers when he had a chance a few years ago to approach Archbishop José H. Gomez to discuss a play he had recently completed and had been touring.

  • Why Kobe Bryant took his Catholic faith so seriously
    February 4, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    It is overcast and quiet as parishioners stream into Newport Beach’s Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, greeted by pastor Father Steve Sallot, both his grin and Roman collar askew.

  • Meet the LA teens in charge of the 2020 Youth Day
    January 29, 2020  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    A digital countdown clock has been ticking on the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress official website, marking the days, hours, minutes, and seconds before the Feb. 20 Youth Day starts inside the Anaheim Convention Center.