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OneLife LA at 5 years
When OneLife LA began five years ago, we were nervous. We were embarking on a project that was brand new, and we didn’t know if we could actually create something that would make sense. That would convey the message that we were hoping to share with the world.
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How the subject of a viral bullying YouTube clip used her faith to forgive
Twelve years later, Lizzie Velasquez still remembers that afternoon as if it were yesterday.
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Sending God’s newest Lay Mission-Helpers from LA to Africa
“One of the biggest mistakes everybody does in mission work is they go there to try to change the people instead of changing ourselves for the first year, and then see what we can do to help after that. This is a three-year mission, and you can blow it in the first three months.”
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Act of faith brings a struggling family a Christmas surprise
When Angelus News heard about a little parochial school in El Sereno that had taken in three students being raised mostly by their grandmother and uncle, it wasn’t long before a staff writer and photographer were dispatched to All Saints School, a cream stucco building a half-dozen blocks off busy Huntington Drive.
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Christmas reward for generous Catholic school students
The energetic group of more than 50 children, transitional kindergarteners to second-graders from St. Paul’s Catholic School in Mid City LA, gathered on a crisp Tuesday afternoon outside the Target store at the base of Baldwin Hills.
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St. Mary’s students celebrate Our Lady
It was an early morning for students at St. Mary of the Assumption School in Santa Maria on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but they didn’t mind. Together with the local community, the school began a day of celebration with sunrise prayer, breakfast, and songs, including “Las Mañanitas,” at 6 a.m.
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Pope accepts LA bishop’s early retirement
Pope Francis has accepted Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar’s request for early retirement, the Vatican announced Dec. 19.
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Holy watermark at local church?
Did a piece of sidewalk just become the area’s newest shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe? Parishioners at Holy Family Church in Artesia might tell you so.
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Pauline sisters bring evangelical ‘sister act’ to LA
When nuns give concerts — even ones with flashing lights, contemporary music, and a drummer — costume changes are out of the question.
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Archbishop Gomez celebrates Simbang Gabi kickoff Mass
Thousands of Filipino Catholics from throughout Southern California celebrated the beginning of the 16th Simbang Gabi, one of the oldest Filipino Christmas traditions, with a special Mass on Saturday, December 15 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple St., in downtown Los Angeles.