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CIF polls: Marymount beats Mater Dei at Nike Tourney
Marymount’s 25-22, 25-17 victory over Mater Dei to win the Nike Tournament of Champions last weekend pushed the Sailors ahead of the Monarchs in the CIF-Southern Section girls’ volleyball poll released Sept. 24.
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Notre Dame High School introduces virtual anatomy and dissection technology
A new approach to teaching anatomy does away with the old science class scalpel. At Notre Dame High School, students are using the newest high-tech software to perform virtual dissections.
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Bishops at national Hispanic gathering show support for immigrants
While last week’s V Encuentro explored the ways in which Hispanic Catholics are both the face and future of the Catholic Church in the United States, the theme of immigration loomed large over the four-day summit.
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Reunited migrant families get LA ‘miracle’
The slightly built young Honduran man sat in a chair next to his 7-year-old daughter, who smiled shyly at the stranger asking them to remember their recent separation at the border.
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What Catholics learned at V Encuentro, and what they hope their bishops heard
It’s a difficult time for the Catholic Church, a fact much-discussed at the National V Encuentro conference, a gathering of Hispanic and Latino Catholics from throughout the U.S. that took place Sept. 20-23 in Grapevine, Texas.
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Football: The (same) old 1-2 in D-1 and Maxpreps’ polls
Same old, same old — unless you’re St. John Bosco and Mater Dei, Nos. 1 and 2 for the fourth straight week in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 football poll released Sept. 17,
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Hispanic summit styled as bright light in dark time for the Church
When St. Pope John Paul II traveled to Cuba in January 1998, becoming the first pontiff to visit the island nation, Brooklyn’s Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros recalls, “the whole world went with John Paul.”
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LA loses two ‘very fine priests’ on same day
The Catholic Church in Los Angeles lost two long-serving, beloved priests on Monday, September 17.
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Homeboy Industries founder to speak at Villanova
Father Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest, best-selling author, and the founder of Homeboy Industries, and on Tuesday, Oct. 2, he’ll be sharing his story with students at Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai.