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  • West Covina’s Labor of Love delivers holiday food to the homeless
    March 11, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, In The News  |  

    Sometimes love takes work.

    West Covina resident Shirley Mirador and her family come together every Christmas and Easter to show care in the form of a meal.

    Her nonprofit, Labor of Love, fed about 1,600 homeless people last year. Friends, family members and fellow parishioners crowd in at her own home to put together the meals.

  • St. Lawrence Martyr of Redondo Beach wins third straight junior high academic decathlon
    March 11, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    The academic decathlon team at St. Lawrence Martyr School of Redondo Beach has made history by pulling off a three-peat, once again prevailing over more than 100 regional competitors in the Academic Junior High Decathlon sponsored by Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

  • St. Anthony Student Film Competes in San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
    March 7, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, In The News  |  

    Four students from St. Anthony High School’s Marine Science Academy will be in San Francisco this weekend where a movie they created about the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch will compete in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival’s 3rd Annual Student Film Competition.

  • ArtExchange exhibit features prisoners in a new light
    March 6, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Nicolassa Galvez, CEO of the ArtExchange left, and Amalia Molina, of the Office of Restorative Justice right, talk about the art as the ArtExchange is hosting an exhibition in collaboration with the Office of Restorative Justice of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles that will showcase artwork by various artists who have been or are currently in prisons and jails throughout California in Long Beach, CA. February 27, 2014. Artwork will be for sale, proceeds will fund programs for children whose parents are jailed and inmate re-entry support. The show opens to the public March 8.(Thomas R. Cordova/Press-Telegram/Daily Breeze)

  • Empieza la Cuaresma con el Miércoles de Ceniza
    March 5, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Miles de cristianos de todo el sur de California observan este miércoles como el día del inicio de la Cuaresma con la tradicional costumbre del Miércoles de Ceniza.

    La Cuaresma es la preparación de los 40 días con la que los fieles se alistan para la Pascua a través de penitencias por sus pecados y la búsqueda de la renovación espiritual mediante la oración, la abnegación y las buenas obras.

  • Archbishop Gomez Asks Southland Catholics to Reflect on Beatitudes During Lent
    March 5, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Roman Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass at noon in English at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, where Mass will be also celebrated in English at 5:15 p.m. and at 7 p.m. in Spanish.

  • Ash Wednesday kicks off Christian season of Lent
    March 5, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    LOS ANGELES >> Christians throughout the Southland will observe Ash Wednesday today, beginning the 40-day season of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing penance for sins and seeking spiritual renewal through prayer, self-denial and good works.

  • Upbeat future for priesthood? 3 California seminarians who answered call
    February 27, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    Camarillo, California (CNN) — In the Catholic Church’s effort to remedy its shortage of clergy, Juan Jose Ochoa is a seminarian planning to become a priest, part of a trend of rising national enrollment in seminaries, though graduation rates remains low.

  • Faith & Popcorn
    February 27, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    It’s a cardinal rule among Hollywood producers: Never spend your own money. But Mark Burnett and Roma Downey have other rules they live by. Commandments, to be precise. And last summer their religious faith told them to double down on the Bible.

  • Catholics, evangelicals team up in pressing for immigration reform
    February 27, 2014  |  In The News  |  

    WASHINGTON In a joint letter to members of Congress, Catholic bishops and evangelical leaders pleaded for “common sense fixes to our immigration policies” by passing legislation this year.