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  • Sophia Institute offers teachers ongoing theological formation
    August 15, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    The Sophia Institute for Teachers, founded last year to “renew Catholic culture through Catholic education,” made five daylong presentations Aug. 4-8 in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

    The program, an initiative of Sophia Institute Press, offers training programs, lesson plans and ongoing advice and support to teachers and schools.

  • Seminary announces new faculty
    August 14, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    St. John’s Seminary is celebrating its 75th year forming priests for the Roman Catholic Church at its campus in Camarillo. the school recently appointed the following five new faculty/staff members.

    The Rev. Rodel Balagtas will work with the pastoral formation team at the school, collaborating with pastors throughout Southern California in providing internships for seminarians in their third year of formation.

    Balagtas has been pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Hollywood for the past 12 years and taught homiletics at St. John’s in the 2012- 13 school year.

  • Follow Pope Francis on Twitter For Some Inspirational Messages
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Pope Francis has social media clout. The @Pontifex Twitter account, started by his predecessor Pope Benedict, has grown to more than 4.3 million English language followers (and a total of 14 million in followers in nine languages). I now follow the Pope on Twitter and read messages like ”young people don’t give up on your dreams of a better world”, ”those who live attached to money, power and pride it is impossible to be happy”, and ” I thank all those who are courageously helping our brothers and sisters in Iraq.”

  • Tweeting in Latin: Social media and the Catholic church
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    This week, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is hosting a technology conference at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

    The conference is aimed at teaching those within the Catholic faith how to best use social media to bring people into the church.

  • Meet Monsignor Tighe, who oversees the Holy Twitter
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Everyone is on Twitter these days.

    Celebrities, politicians, companies – even the pope. Where it used to take physical travel and the printed word to spread “the good works of the Gospel,” now the pope – and the Catholic Church – can reach 15 million followers in the click of a button.

    And who does Pope Francis turn to when he needs advice on perfecting the pontifical tweet? Perhaps, Monsignor Paul Tighe, the Vatican’s social media secretary.

  • Running the Holy Twitter
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Everyone is on Twitter these days.

    Celebrities, politicians, companies – even the pope. Where it used to take physical travel and the printed word to spread “the good works of the Gospel,” now the pope – and the Catholic Church – can reach 15 million followers in the click of a button.

  • LAUSD opens doors to young Central American immigrants
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    At the low-slung bungalow west of downtown, a youngster screams from a vaccination and a nurse records the height and weight of an older boy. Academic counselors stand by, because it is here that many children who recently crossed the southern border enroll in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

  • Vatican social media guru: Catholics should give Internet ‘a soul’
    August 13, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    The Pope’s social media expert said Wednesday that Catholics should be using social media to make the atmosphere online a positive place where people can deepen their relationships with one another.

  • LA Archbishop Gomez Wants U.S. Opened To More Immigrants
    August 8, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Jose Gomez is the Archbishop of Los Angeles — he was born in Mexico, and became an American citizen a few years ago. Steve Inskeep talks to Gomez about his views on U.S. immigration policy.

  • L.A. City Council passes resolution backing unaccompanied minors
    August 7, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution Aug. 5 urging the Obama Administration and the Department of Homeland security to ensure the humane treatment of unaccompanied minors who have fled their home countries in Central America.