Pilgrims look forward to bringing Eucharist across Southwest, including wildfire-recovering LA

It may feel counterintuitive, but Charlie McCullough says that pilgrimage “teaches us how to live a normal life.” That has been his experience after traveling the southern route of the 2024 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage from the Texas-Mexico border to Indianapolis over the span of two months.

This year, he is doing it again — on a different route, with a different group — as the team lead of the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage from Indianapolis to Los Angeles.

St. Francis Seniors Honored with Archdiocese Christian Service Award

St. Francis High School proudly congratulates seniors Aidan Guzman and Dominik Hidalgo on receiving the prestigious Christian Service Award from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. This distinguished honor recognizes their unwavering commitment to serving others throughout their four years at St. Francis. Together, Aidan and Dominik have dedicated an impressive total of over 970 hours to various service projects, making a meaningful impact within their communities and beyond. Their selflessness, leadership, and dedication to the Franciscan values of compassion and service exemplify what it means to be a Golden Knight. The entire St. Francis community celebrates their achievement and is incredibly proud of their contributions.

Christian Service Recognition for Salesian Students

On March 18, 2025, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles celebrated the powerful role of young people in shaping a better world at the annual Archdiocesan Catholic High School Christian Service Awards Mass and Ceremony. This event highlighted over seventy young individuals who are not only responding to the Gospel but are also actively building a civilization of love. Among the honorees were four exceptional students from our Salesian Network of Schools: Luis Antonio Camacho from Don Bosco Technical Institute-Rosemead, Alexander Ramirez from Bishop Mora Salesian High School-Los Angeles, Andrew Rios from St. John Bosco High School-Bellflower, and Diego Salcedo from St. John Bosco High School-Bellflower.

La recuperación de los disparos continúa, ‘poniendo todo en manos del Señor

La recuperación de los incendios de Eaton y Palisades que golpeó la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles el 7 de enero está en marcha, con parroquias, escuelas y otras instalaciones afectadas en reparaciones, reconstrucción y reapertura.

‘The Lord still has many friends’: Meet the 8 young adults embarking on the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

This summer, eight young adults — referred to as the Perpetual Pilgrims — are putting their careers, degrees, and hobbies on pause to accompany Jesus in the Eucharist through cities and towns en route from Indianapolis to Los Angeles.

How Whittier native Jason Hartley found his way to West Point, via a presidential announcement

It started as an unexpected phone call, then an invite to Washington D.C. — then, an announcement on live national television that changed Whittier/La Mirada native Jason Hartley’s life forever.

Understanding Work and Prayer in the Life of Junipero Serra

ranciscan Junipero Serra (1713-1784), one of the founders of Catholicism in California, should he miraculously walk the paths of California today (on tired, sore, bare feet, for he believed in the practice of mortification), would be astonished at the vitriol and condemnations of his efforts at bringing the Great Commission among the native people of California.

A glimpse of the diversity in heaven at the LA Congress

The Los Angeles Religious Education Congress welcomed Catholics from across the U.S. and Canada, as well as Australia, Africa and Latin America for worship, prayer, learning and sharing in February. The event is a vivid display of the peek into heaven offered us in Revelation 7:9, “a great multitude, that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages.”

LMU and Archdiocese of Los Angeles Collaborate to Empower Catholic Sisters

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LMU and Archdiocese of Los Angeles Collaborate to Empower Catholic Sisters
March 10, 2025

LMU’s College of Business Administration, in partnership with the Office of the Vicar for Women Religious, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has launched an innovative entrepreneurship training program to empower Catholic sisters in the greater Los Angeles area.