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Experts: LA archdiocese abuse prevention efforts are about ‘changing the culture’
Addressing students during the school’s morning Mass on April 12, Father Michael Wakefield, pastor at St. Francis de Sales Church in Sherman Oaks, relayed a story about a woman who inquired about the healing garden along the parish’s outside wall.
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LA’s Catholic child protection experts look back on 20 years of keeping kids safe
There are few jobs, Susie Lopez will tell you, more rewarding than teaching kids how to stand up to potential predators.
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At South LA parish, tears flow at a reunion decades in the making
Twenty-two years ago, Maria Perez Cardenas’ 16-year-old son set out from their hometown in Jalisco, Mexico, to find work in the United States.
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Archdiocese welcomes record number of new Catholics on Easter 2024
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles had more than 2,000 catechumens baptized into the Catholic faith, the biggest number since at least 2016. The archdiocese also had the second-most candidates since 2016 entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.
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What I saw on Palm Sunday in LA’s hipster capital
It is hard to imagine what the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles looked like in 1921, the year that St. Teresa of Avila Church was founded.
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More than 3,000 pack LA Cathedral for 2024 Chrism Mass
The mission of sanctifying the world and serving others in a priestly way is “not only for those who are ordained,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual Chrism Mass March 25.
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Serra High gets another experiment launched into outer space
Students at Junipero Serra High School in Gardena held a viewing party on March 21 to watch another of their experiments launched to the International Space Station.
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Cardinal: El Salvador is not free, despite vast security improvements
At the age of 81, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez remains the best-known champion of the legacy of his friend and mentor St. Óscar Romero, who was killed 44 years ago during El Salvador’s civil war and today is considered an icon of the Catholic Church’s social justice advocacy.
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For these SoCal Passion plays, it’s more than just showing Christ’s death
Christian Escobar has been involved, in one form or another, with the annual Passion play at Christ the King Church in Hollywood since he was 4.
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LA archdiocese asks parishes to hold special collection for Holy Land relief
Parishes in the LA Archdiocese are being asked to hold an emergency second collection to help Christians in the Holy Land affected by the ongoing war in Gaza.
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