Come celebrate Easter Vigil at St. John Fisher church

Easter takes place on April Fools’ Day this year, the first time this has occurred since 1945. The week leading up to Easter is known as Holy Week. It is my parish’s busiest week of the year.

30,000 Americans to enter Church at Easter Vigil

More than 30,000 people will be welcomed into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil ceremonies across the US this year. The Los Angeles archdiocese, the country’s largest, will welcome nearly 3,000 new members; the Galveston-Houston archdiocese, more than 2,000.

Pope Francis urges youths not to be silent — Palm Sunday

Pope Francis is telling young people to keep on shouting and not let people silence them.

“Dear young people, the joy that Jesus awakens in you is a source of anger and irritation to some, since a joyful young person is hard to manipulate”, he said.

Salvadoran cardinal sees upcoming Romero canonization as ‘gift from God’

Everything you’re hearing about Katy Perry and the L.A. Catholic sisters is probably wrong

Olvera Sweet: Blessing of the Animals

If it is the day before Easter, and you’re in Los Angeles, and you’re standing near some of the city’s very oldest buildings, and it is the early afternoon, the chance that you’ll see a horse draped with paper flowers, or a Pug wearing a bonnet, or a guinea pig inside a decorated enclosure (being carried by a cute tot), is incredibly high.