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  • OneLife LA headliner, actress Patricia Heaton, talks about ‘the most important things’
    January 16, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    “People with a specific disability are being targeted,” Patricia Heaton, the actress known for “Everybody Loves Raymond” and currently in her ninth season on the primetime family series, “The Middle,” said in an interview about Down syndrome and abortion.

  • In Mass with mudslide victims, Archbishop Gomez pledges God’s love and consolation
    January 16, 2018  |  Archbishop Gomez, Around the ADLA  |  

    Archbishop José H. Gomez traveled to Santa Barbara Mission Sunday to celebrate Mass and bring consolation to hundreds of faithful, following a week of mudslides that devastated the region, leaving roads washed out and an estimated 20 people dead, 40 more still missing and hundreds of homes destroyed or badly damaged.

  • Esta Arquidiócesis de Estados Unidos lanza nuevo ministerio para familias de presos
    January 15, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    La Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles lanzó este viernes un nuevo ministerio para servir a las familias de los presos de los condados de Los Ángeles, Santa Bárbara y Ventura en Estados Unidos.

  • ESTOS SON LOS EVENTOS DE MARCH FOR LIFE EN ESTADOS UNIDOS
    January 15, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Cuarenta y cinco años después del fallo de la Corte Suprema que abrió las puertas al aborto legal en todo Estados Unidos, se espera que cientos de miles de personas asistan a los mítines en apoyo a la dignidad de la vida desde la concepción hasta la muerte natural.

  • In Mass with mudslide victims, Archbishop Gomez pledges God’s love and consolation
    January 15, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Archbishop José H. Gomez traveled by helicopter to Santa Barbara Mission Sunday to celebrate Mass and bring consolation to hundreds of faithful, following a week of mudslides that devastated the region, leaving roads washed out and an estimated 20 people dead, 40 more still missing and hundreds of homes destroyed or badly damaged.

  • Fostering hope: L.A. churches part of growing foster care movement
    January 12, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    In 1997, Bishop W. C. Martin led his church on a journey. This journey would see his small evangelical church in Possum Trot, along the Louisiana border in east Texas, adopt 77 children from the foster care system.

  • OneLifeLA — A day of hope and service
    January 11, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    Inspiring speakers will join Archbishop José H. Gomez at the fourth annual OneLife LA event on Jan. 20 at Los Angeles State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles. The annual event unites people throughout Southern California to celebrate the beauty and dignity of every human life from conception to natural death. Themed “Made for Greater,” the event will begin at noon with a walk from the birthplace of the city at Olvera Street to the new Los Angeles State Historic Park.

  • Migration Week in L.A.
    January 10, 2018  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The Archdiocese of Los Angeles celebrates the U.S. bishops’ National Migration Week (Jan. 7-13) by urging elected officials to take a stand on DACA, the federal program that protects young people brought to this country illegally as minors.

  • ‘La Virgen de Guadalupe: Dios Inantzin’ celebrates 15th year at the cathedral
    December 29, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    For theatergoers around the world, the Christmas season is synonymous with famous productions, such as Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” But over the past 15 years, a growing number of people in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, particularly its Mexican Catholic demographic, have also come to associate yuletide theater with the Latino Theater Company’s (LTC) annual performance of the powerful play “La Virgen de Guadalupe: Dios Inantzin” at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Downtown L.A.

  • Rebuilding a mother’s home
    December 20, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  

    The one-story, sturdy working-class house at 187 Nob Hill Lane in Ventura is gone. Burnt to the ground by the ravenous Thomas Fire. Father Michael Sezzi was just there a week ago visiting his 77-year-old mother. He lived there from the sixth grade through St. Bonaventure High School and until he entered St. John’s Seminary. His dad had built the cozy house in 1975-76. As a boy, the priest could look out his bedroom window and see the Camarillo Airport. And if he glanced out the front, he could take in the Pacific Ocean all the way to the Channel Islands.