San Diego bishop remembered for Christian example in life, death

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

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

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

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.

Many blessings: La Reina celebrates 50th anniversary

Sr. Mary Josanne Furey, who served 13 years as principal of La Reina High School beginning in 1970, said the Catholic school for girls surpassed her dream for the future.

“We weren’t that sure that La Reina would make it at all,” said Fury, who began teaching at La Reina in 1966 and wrote the lyrics of the school’s alma mater. “There was nowhere to get students. I asked to have seventh and eighth grades, and that turned the tide. Since then, everything has been going well. Look how wonderful it is today.”

Mother Teresa and Us

‘Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was probably the most familiar Christian face of our generation,” Los Angeles archbishop José Gomez writes in his foreword to The Love That Made Mother Teresa: How Her Secret Visions and Dark Nights Can Help You Conquer the Slums of Your Heart by David Scott. “Her works of love, done for the abandoned and forsaken in a remote city in India, made hers a household name the world over,” Archbishop Gomez continues.

Losing a limb to diabetes — the poverty factor

A diabetic middle-aged woman in South Los Angeles told me — after losing five toes, her right foot and ankle, along with nearly half her leg — that she was doing “just fine.” That’s what she said, even though the ugly sore on the sole of her good foot wasn’t healing, forcing her to use a wheelchair more and more, fearing another amputation was inevitable.

‘The Little Flower’ in our midst

Michel Pascal is a cradle Catholic, born in France. Church was his home, his soul, always. His parents brought him to Lisieux as a child of six and he became smitten with Thérèse, the Little Flower.

All these years later, “St. Therese” — the play he has written, directed and produced — has been staged all over the world, more than 700 times since 2009. This month, he’ll bring it to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

CASA DEL MIGRANTE

TIJUANA— A minivan could drive through the gate to a Catholic-run center for deported migrants. The metal-mesh door swings open and the only place to knock is on the embedded mailbox.

It’s a big yellow building, four floors and sleeps hundreds. Guests, mostly recently deported immigrants, have to do chores. There’s a talk or meeting every night — Alcoholics Anonymous, or a presentation from a social worker or a lawyer. On one weeknight, there’s Mass.

New war on poverty alters tactics and premises

Why fight about the extent of blight in Toledo and how to combat it? T-Towns or a blight authority?

I say both.

Obviously both.

The city itself must be active cutting grass, clearing junk, citing slumlords. And neighborhoods have to take hold of their own destinies — they actually do a pretty good job of that in Toledo, not always getting a lot of help from the city.