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  • CIF polls: Monarchs still first in girls’ volleyball
    September 6, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    It was moving week for many schools in the CIF-Southern Section Divisions girls’ volleyball rankings, but national power Mater Dei remained atop the Divisions 1&2 poll released Sept. 4.

  • LMU report: Women’s volleyball now 5-1
    September 6, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The Loyola Marymount University women’s volleyball team ran its record to 5-1 with two wins and a loss at last weekend’s Utah State Invitational in Logan, Utah.

  • Football: St. John Bosco, Mater Dei remain 1-2 in CIF, Maxpreps
    September 5, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Another big win, another number one ranking for St. John Bosco in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 football poll released Sept. 4.

  • Archbishop Gomez dedicates Thomas Aquinas College’s newest building, St. Cecilia Hall
    September 5, 2018  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    “After much work and prayer by so many members of the College community, we gather now to bless and dedicate this new lecture and concert hall to St. Cecilia,” declared the Most Reverend José H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles, at Thomas Aquinas College on Monday, August 27. “It will be a center of the College’s lecture and concert series — and a place for its students’ performances and other wholesome entertainment.”

  • City of Angels has lost a saint
    August 29, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    John Olsen, 85, was a St. Bede the Venerable parishioner and longtime resident of La Canada. On August 11, he passed away after a lengthy illness.

    Everyone who knew him would confirm that John led a life dedicated to rescue. He organized meals for the hungry and homeless of Los Angeles, established volunteer organizations to provide for the needy, served in the U.S. Coast Guard for 40 years and moved to a third-world country at the age of 76 to help the destitute in Ghana. His door was always open for family and friends who needed shelter and loving care. As a single parent, he raised eight children, ran a successful business and made the less fortunate a priority in his life.

  • Girls’ volleyball: Three Catholic teams are No. 1
    August 29, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    While Mater Dei continues to lead the CIF-Southern Section Divisions 1&2 rankings in girls’ volleyball, the Monarchs are not alone at the top.

    Bishop Montgomery (Division 4) and St. Bonaventure (Division 7) have joined Mater Dei as No. 1-ranked Catholic school teams in the latest poll, released Aug. 27.

  • Abuse crisis a reminder of tough lessons learned in LA
    August 29, 2018  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    You are no longer alone.”

    That line was written August 27 by the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, in an apology to “survivors of abuse and the families who have lost a loved one to abuse” in one of his several statements regarding the re-emerging clerical sex abuse scandal.

  • Football: Braves’ new world is a view from the top
    August 28, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    On the strength of two solid victories, St. John Bosco has taken over the top spot in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 football poll released Aug. 27, a move that made sense in the midst of several other rankings that, well, didn’t.

  • LMU women’s volleyball, soccer enjoy 2-0 weekends
    August 28, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    A series of comebacks helped bring home the Hilton Penn’s Landing Temple Invitational

    Championship for the Loyola Marymount University women’s volleyball team last weekend.

  • PHOTOS: World Youth Day Cross and Marian Icon come to ADLA
    August 28, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The World Youth Day Cross and an Icon of the Virgin Mary made their last stop of a multi-city tour throughout the United States in Los Angeles on their way to Panama for World Youth Day 2019. Photographs by Victor Alemán for Angelus News.