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  • PUEBLO DE LA ASUNCIÓN Por Monseñor JOSÉ H. GOMEZ
    August 23, 2021  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    A muchos nos ha dejado tristes y decepcionados el regreso del coronavirus bajo una nueva variante.

    Durante más de un año, hemos vivido con el temor a la enfermedad y a la muerte. Ahora, estamos tratando de encontrar nuevamente nuestro camino, de vivir con la realidad de este virus mortal que sigue estando en torno nuestro.

  • People of the Assumption
    August 18, 2021  |  The Latest  |  

    The return of a new coronavirus variant has left many of us feeling sad and disappointed.

  • How to Raise a Warrior of Faith
    August 17, 2021  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News, The Latest  |  

    How do we ensure our Catholic faith is successfully embraced by the next generation? That is one of the most crucial and vexing questions facing American Catholics in a time of declining church membership and attendance. A poll from last year found that more than a third of young Catholics planned to attend Mass less regularly after the pandemic (whenever that is)

  • L.A. volunteers say end to Masses for migrant children is bittersweet
    August 9, 2021  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Since April, the Long Beach Convention Center has housed migrant children with nowhere else to go, while authorities searched for adult family members and sponsors in the country.

  • The LA priest who became Bishop Amat’s ‘living endowment’
    August 9, 2021  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    For all the arms he’s lovingly twisted, every gut he’s jovially busted, for every alumnus’ wallet he affectionately pried open, there has always been an unspoken passion behind Msgr. Aidan Carroll’s methods.

  • TRANSMITIENDO LA FE Por Monseñor José H. Gomez
    August 8, 2021  |  The Latest  |  

    El 25 de julio, víspera de la fiesta de los Santos Joaquín y Ana, celebramos el primer Día Mundial de los Abuelos y Personas Mayores, establecido por el Papa Francisco.

  • Passing on the faith
    August 4, 2021  |  The Latest  |  

    On July 25, the day before the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne, we celebrated the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, established by Pope Francis.

  • Remembering The Tidings’ Hermine Lees: ‘The personification of nice’
    July 22, 2021  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    It was Hermine’s decision to cut back to part-time staff writer status in the spring of 1991 that enabled me to come on board as a Tidings staff writer. More importantly, though, Hermine’s decision opened the door to a wonderful friendship that lasted three decades, ended only by her passing July 3, at age 94, at home in Cambria.

  • From Sunday to Sunday
    July 21, 2021  |  The Latest  |  

    I hope you are enjoying these summer days.

    For many, summer is a time when school is out and work slows down a little; opportunities open up for recreation, relaxation, vacation.

  • ‘The goal is love’: Behind the scenes of the LA Archdiocese’s new podcast
    July 12, 2021  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    On the way home from his psychiatric practice, Dr. John Masko used to stop at St. Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts, to buy chocolates that the nuns made — and sometimes to attend Mass. On those visits to the Trappistine monastery in the 1990s, he discovered something that changed his understanding of living the faith: a gift he is sharing through the new podcast series, “The Beauty Within.”