Notre Dame’s Hunter Greene makes cover of Sports Illustrated — and California history

The alert came on Hunter Greene’s phone as he sat in a psychology class at Notre Dame.

Next came a text from his father Russell said, “Proud of You”.

Notre Dame High’s Hunter Greene to be featured on Sports Illustrated cover

Hunter Greene is joining an elite group of athletes that includes LeBron James, Bryce Harper and Kevin Garnett. All were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as high school athletes.

Thousands entered Church in US at Easter

About one-third of the dioceses in the United States have reported the numbers of catechumens and candidates who were intending to enter the Church at the Easter Vigil.

The highest figures were supplied by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (2,694 catechumens and candidates—up from 1,638 in 2015), the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (2,375), the Diocese of Dallas (2,175), the Archdiocese of Atlanta (1,892), the Archdiocese of Newark (1,192), the Archdiocese of Washington (1,181), and the Archdiocese of Seattle (1,088).

At ‘mother of all vigils,’ U.S. church welcomes thousands of new Catholics

During what the Roman Missal describes as the “mother of all vigils,” the U.S. Catholic Church welcomed thousands of new Catholics at the Easter Vigil April 15 in churches big and small across the country.

Easter Sunday: Mass Around Southern California

Easter Masses and services will be celebrated Sunday at churches throughout Los Angeles County while sunrise services will be held aboard the battleship Iowa, near the Manhattan Beach Pier and in Palisades Park in Santa Monica.

ARCHDIOCESE of LA helps out the community on immigration

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has been holding forums, while investigating rumored immigration raids, Steve Angeles reports in Balitang America. During the Holy Week, Archbishop of LA gave a wallet-sized card prayer and advised on what to do when immigration officer approach them.

St. Anthony’s turns itself around to become ‘The Miracle on Olive Avenue’

St. Anthony’s, a legendary high school in Long Beach, was in desperate need of a miracle at the turn of the 21st century.