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  • 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.

  • Formación del diácono: “No es para hacer cosas, sino para ser “
    June 17, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    Hace cinco años, 13 hombres se embarcaron en un viaje juntos para convertirse en diáconos, reunidos entre sí por primera vez en un retiro de silencio. El 11 de junio de ese viaje culminó con estos hombres y sus cónyuges de ser recibido por aplausos clamorosos que emanan de los hombres, mujeres y niños que acudieron a la catedral de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles centro de Los Ángeles ‘para la Ordenación de este año para el Diaconado.

  • St. John Vianney congregation rebuilds after arson destroys church
    June 17, 2016  |  In The News  |  

  • Loyola athletes are a dominant force
    June 16, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Loyola High School of Los Angeles, the oldest continually operated educational institution in Southern California, recently showcased its championship 2015-2016 season and highlighted successes.

  • Tapestry hanging ends Saint Serra’s journey back to Ventura | VIDEO
    June 16, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    It was woven in Belgium, designed in Ojai and based on a 19th-century painting from Mexico.

  • The Archbishop’s Eyes
    June 16, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    My wife and I had the pleasure of attending the diaconate ordinations for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles last weekend. This was my first ordination since being ordained last year. Like your own wedding, it is hard to be fully involved in your own ordination. This year, I was able to relive those moments in my own ordination that I did not fully appreciate and some that I did.

  • Local man is among newest deacons ordained by archbishop
    June 12, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    A local Catholic is among 13 new permanent deacons ordained Saturday for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

  • Verbum Dei High School: Every graduate is going to college
    June 10, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    There’s plenty to celebrate at Verbum Dei High School. For the 6th year in a row, the entire graduating class at this Jesuit prep school is headed to college. According to administrators, all of the students come from low income households and are academically behind one or two years when they arrive.

  • Assisted suicide ‘crosses the line,’ says California bishop
    June 10, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    LOS ANGELES – With California now allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medications for terminally ill patients who ask for them, “we are crossing a line,” said the archbishop of Los Angeles.

  • ‘Killing Is Not Caring’: California’s Assisted Suicide Law Goes into Effect
    June 9, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Today, June 9, the state of California’s assisted suicide legislation has gone into effect, giving approximately 12 percent of the population of the United States the right to request life-ending medication when in the final phase of a terminal illness. Matt Whitaker, state director of the national advocacy group Compassion and Choices, called it a “monumental day for Californians suffering from terminal diseases. Senator Bill Monning, a co-sponsor of the California bill, likewise recently called the law a “historic achievement,” a blessing that will bring relief to a “limited universe of people.”