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  • Welcoming new priests in LA
    July 24, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Congratulations to the following priests, who have been incardinated into the Archdiocese of Los Angeles:

  • Girls’ tennis: Three Catholic teams in D-1 for 2018
    July 21, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Three Catholic high schools — Mater Dei, Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks and Santa Margarita — are among the 40 Division 1 girls’ tennis teams for the 2018 season that opens Aug. 20.

  • LA pilgrims reflect on visit to Guadalupe shrine: ‘We really want to see our mother’
    July 17, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Earlier this month, a group of Los Angeles Catholics traveled south of the border to visit Mexico City, united in the hope of laying their prayers and concerns at the feet of the Lady of Guadalupe.

  • Jesuit aims to stem decline of faith with launch of catechetical website
    July 17, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Jesuit Father Robert J. Spitzer, former president of Gonzaga University, launched a cutting-edge catechetical website to confront the rising tide of unbelief spurred by an increasingly skeptical, science-saturated society.

  • LA parish draws Croatia fans for World Cup final
    July 15, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Hundreds of soccer fans flooded St. Anthony Croatian Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday to cheer for Croatia’s national team as it took on France for the World Cup final. Some travelled from as far as San Diego to watch the game with LA’s Croatian community, while others just happened to be visiting from Croatia.

  • Photos from the second annual ADLA pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe
    July 13, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    For the second year, and under the spiritual leadership of Archbishop José H. Gomez, 140 faithful from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles participated in a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, in Mexico City July 5-9

  • St. Barnabas marathon runner is going strong
    July 13, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    In April of this year, Al Colin of St. Barnabas Parish in Long Beach, completed his 8th consecutive Boston Marathon.

  • UK Boys Choir to perform at Cathedral
    July 12, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    On Friday, August 3, the nationally acclaimed London boys choir Libera will perform at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, as part of a highly-anticipated U.S. tour. Although the choir has performed throughout the U.S. in years past, this will be their first appearance in Los Angeles.

  • Father Joe Moniz, beloved pastor, retires
    July 11, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    When Father Joe Moniz first came to St. Philip the Apostle Church in Pasadena in 1998, parishioners did not know what to expect. How would an Indian-born priest connect with their multi-cultural Southern California parish community? Parishioners questioned whether his Indian accent would make homilies difficult to understand or if he could say a Mass in Spanish.

  • Msgr. Richard Krekelberg, a shepherd to his flock, retires
    July 10, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Monsignor Richard Krekelberg, ordained a priest in St. Vibiana’s Cathedral in 1973, by Cardinal Timothy Manning, has served in the Los Angeles Archdiocese for more than 45 years, baptizing children, marrying young adults, counseling the weary, providing guidance to high school students, and ministering to the sick. Msgr. Krekelberg has also been instrumental in the restoration and renovation of St. Rita’s Catholic Church and parish school.