State Swim Meet: Santa Margarita wins girls’ title

The young women of Santa Margarita High School keep on piling up the water-sport hardware, with the latest addition being their second straight CIF State Swimming & Diving Championship.

Ramona Convent hosts 26th annual academic competition

At this year’s Ramona Challenge, a day of fun and competition for girls in grades 5-8, over 700 students from 20 local elementary schools converged on Ramona Convent in Alhambra to show off their smarts. Competitors were selected from their respective schools to compete in artistic, athletic, musical, and academic contests designed by Ramona’s high school students and faculty members.

List of ADLA parish leadership appointments

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has released the newest list of appointed pastors, administrators, parish life directors, and religious administrators, effective July 1, 2019.

Remembering our priests and deacons

We invite you to please remember our deceased priests and deacons in your prayers. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. And may they rest in peace.

Boys’ tennis: Mater Dei, Bishop Montgomery reach semifinals

Mater Dei and Bishop Montgomery remained alive in the CIF-Southern Section Boys’ Tennis Tournament with narrow victories in the May 6 quarterfinals.

LA Catholic school principals get teaching ideas from Finland

A week later, Kris Brough’s head was still spinning.

The principal of Our Lady of Lourdes School in Northridge had just come back from Finland with 11 local Catholic school principals to observe the Nordic nation’s acclaimed education system in late March.

After his death in Vietnam, journalist Raul Guerra finally returns to his parish home

Raul Guerra was home at last, at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in East Los Angeles last week.

Ruben Valencia made sure of it.

1,000 cranes for 1,000 prayers: Local parish symbolizes hope in “Keep Kids Safe Month”

At St. John the Evangelist Church in Los Angeles, parishioners wrapped up a month of child safety prayers and awareness by hanging 1,000 paper cranes. Each crane symbolizes a victim of child abuse, and represents the parish’s prayers of hope and healing.

PHOTOS: Bishop Brennan installed as the 6th bishop of the Diocese of Fresno

The Diocese of Fresno welcomed Bishop Joseph V. Brennan as its sixth bishop at an Installation Mass celebrated at St. Anthony of Padua Church May 2.

A final farewell for LA’s last ‘Greatest Generation’ priest

During his 76 years as a priest of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Msgr. Richard H. Murray resided at only three parishes.