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  • Football: Busy Thursday this week thanks to Yom Kippur
    September 28, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Yom Kippur, the holiest day for the Jewish faith, is on Friday, and lots of high school football teams have switched their games to Thursday night.

    Players who are Jewish will appreciate the scheduling change. One of the biggest changes was made by Alemany High, which switched its scheduled Mission League showdown with Chaminade to Thursday night under urging from the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

  • St. John Bosco’s Matt Katnik shows he’s an athlete with class
    September 28, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    t’s one of those wonderful sports moments captured on video that makes everyone laugh. Matt Katnik, the 6-foot-4, 305-pound St. John Bosco lineman, was trying to celebrate a touchdown with 165-pound sophomore receiver Kristian Gilbert. A chest bump sent Gilbert tumbling to the ground in a true sports blooper moment.

    “He’s really skinny. That’s where the problem is,” Katnik explained.

  • Century-Old Crucifix Stolen from SoCal Church for Second Time
    September 26, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    A Southern California congregation is praying for the return of a more than 100-year-old stolen crucifix taken from an Oxnard church for the second time in two decades.

    A man with a shaved head and bushy mustache entered Santa Clara Catholic Church in the 300 block of South E Street on Wednesday afternoon and left with the crucifix, according to a news release by the Oxnard Police Department.

  • Governor Urged to Sign Exide-Related Bills
    September 25, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    “Governor Brown quit messing around…shut Exide down!” chanted the crowd at a press conference called last week to urge the governor to sign into law a pair of bills aimed at regulating an embattled acid-lead battery recycling plant and one of the state agencies charged with permitting and monitoring its performance.

  • For Orange’s Own, “The Veil Is Lifted”
    September 24, 2014  |  In The News  |  

  • A long, prayerful farewell to San Diego’s bishop
    September 18, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    The long farewell to San Diego’s bishop, Cirilo Flores, concluded Wednesday with a day of pomp and ritual, tears and the occasional burst of laughter.

  • San Diego bishop remembered for Christian example in life, death
    September 18, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    San Diego, Calif., Sep 18, 2014 / 06:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- San Diego’s late Bishop Cirilo Flores was “a man of the Beatitudes” with a deep affection for the people of his diocese, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles said at the bishop’s Sept. 17 funeral Mass.

  • Realizan procesión en honor a patrona católica de Los Ángeles
    September 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Los Ángeles, 13 sep (EFEUSA).- La arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles celebrará hoy una procesión con motivo del aniversario 233 de la ciudad, y a la que se espera la asistencia de miles de fieles, según informó la institución.

  • Loyola High School: A home football game 65 years in the making
    September 12, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Loyola High School redefines the concept of the homecoming game tonight.

    The school’s history dates to 1865, making it the oldest educational institution in Southern California. The high school proper opened in 1918, and it has been at its current location – a warm campus on an oasis-like plateau rising in the Pico Union area due west of downtown Los Angeles – since 1927.

  • RELIGION: Cuatro iglesias esperan la visita de la Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos
    September 11, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    PALM SPRINGS – La Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos será traída en el mes de octubre durante una peregrinación desde la Catedral-Basílica de San Juan de los Lagos, México a cuatro parroquias en el sur de California.