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  • Religion events in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area, June 24-July 1
    June 23, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Archbishop Jose H. Gomez celebrate a Mass and welcomes the St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More relics, 12:10, followed by a presentation by Jan Graffius, curator of collections at Stonyhurst College in England, 12:50 p.m. July 1. Veneration time, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July 2. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple St., Los Angeles. http://bit.ly/28O6uOp

  • Archbishop Gomez Celebrates St. Monica Academy Graduation
    June 22, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    On June 17, Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez celebrated St. Monica Academy’s Baccalaureate Mass and Graduation at the school’s new Montrose campus. After celebrating Mass along with six other priests, Archbishop Gomez gave the commencement address and conferred diplomas upon St. Monica Academy’s 8th Grade and Senior graduates. In his address, the Archbishop urged the graduates to pray unceasingly and become saints. The ceremony closed with the graduates singing the words of their Alma Mater: “Crusaders, fight the good fight throughout your future lives. Proclaim the truth with courage knowing Christ is at your side.”

  • Valley volunteers feed homeless on Skid Row
    June 22, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Volunteer members of the Old Mission Santa Ines Society of St. Vincent de Paul Conference of Charity traveled to Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 3 to serve lunch to 70 homeless men and women at the society’s Cardinal Manning Center.

  • Now touring America: two English saints who died for their faith
    June 21, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Washington D.C., Jun 21, 2016 / 05:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A relic tour currently taking place in the United States highlights the virtues of two English saints who stood up for conscience and paid the ultimate price.

  • LA archbishop says US society is no longer one for the vulnerable
    June 20, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    The US has crossed a line from being a society that cares for the vulnerable to one that seeks to be rid of those whose suffering is deemed inconvenient, the archbishop of Los Angeles has said.

  • COMING TO THE END OF LIFE IN CALIFORNIA
    June 20, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    On June 9, California became the fifth state in the nation to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medications for patients who ask for them.

  • How this new LA deacon will serve Catholics on the margins
    June 19, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Los Angeles, Calif., Jun 19, 2016 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- For the estimated 5,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, parish participation can be difficult.

  • Incarnation Catholic Church’s Summer Carnival runs through weekend
    June 18, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Incarnation Catholic Church is holding its third annual Summer Carnival this weekend, featuring rides, game booths, live entertainment, international food, bingo, raffles and a beer garden.

  • Mission San Luis Obispo restores St. Vibiana portrait
    June 18, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    It was an event that Federico Fellini might have memorialized in film. The remains of a young woman of about 16 were found in Rome’s ancient catacombs in 1853. A marble inscription on her tomb read, “to the soul of the innocent and pure Vibiana.” A laurel wreath that early Christians used to symbolize martyrdom was chiseled above her name.

  • California Hospitals Reject Assisted Suicide
    June 17, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Following last week’s implementation of the state’s End of Life Option Act, which allows terminally ill patients given less than six months to live the right to legally kill themselves, several medical facilities in Santa Barbara and Palm Springs have publicly stated they will not employ the practice in their hospitals, an allowance afforded under the new law.