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  • Community gathers to honor the life of unknown citizens
    December 23, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    Father Chris Ponnet, director of St. Camillus Spiritual Care Center and head of the Spiritual Care Department of the LAC+USC Medical Center, presides over interfaith funeral at the annex of Evergreen Cemetery on First Street in Boyle Heights

  • Unsung Heroes: Robert Escobar feeds his soul by providing food for others
    December 22, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Twice a week on most mornings for the past eight years, he pulls opens the van doors and loads in brown bags filled with sandwiches, fruit and desserts for those in need.

  • Redondo Beach church remembers those killed, injured in crash
    December 22, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    On Sunday at St. James Catholic Church in Redondo Beach, people who knew Samuel gazed at the photos, now part of a memorial bursting with teddy bears, poinsettias and candles, and remembered a 6-year-old whose infectious spirit made him everyone’s friend

  • Christmas and the love of God
    December 19, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    Jesus came into this world as a child, vulnerable and dependent.

    He made himself little so that we could love him. So that we could pick him up, hold him in our arms and take care of him, just as Mary and Joseph held him on that first Christmas night in Bethlehem.

  • Mercy is the measure of our love
    December 10, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    If people ask us, what does it mean to be a Christian, what do we say? This is another way of asking the question: what are we waiting for in Advent?

    Of course, the correct answer is that in Advent we are waiting for the coming of Jesus Christ.

  • Catholic Radio Launches in Los Angeles
    December 10, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    After a long absence, Catholic programming enters the country’s largest radio market.

  • Youth From St. Andrew’s Church Carry the “Peregrina” in Huge Los Angeles Procession
    December 9, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Members of St. Andrew’s in Pasadena had the honor Sunday of escorting the Peregrina, the pilgrim image of the Virgin of Guadalupe (the patron saint of Mexico) in the 83rd annual procession in East Los Angeles.

  • OneLife LA — and a challenge for Advent
    December 3, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    Advent is a season of mercy.

    The mercy of God is the great theme running through the first stories of Jesus’ coming.

    In her Magnificat, Mary sings: “His mercy is from age to age.” Zechariah, father of St. John the Baptist, sings: “The tender mercy of our God … will visit us.”

  • Archbishop Gomez on immigration and the next America
    November 21, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    Many of us have forgotten our immigrant roots. But our Church has always been a Church of immigrants, as our nation has always been a nation of immigrants. In earlier generations, we welcomed newcomers from every nation in Europe. Today, we are still welcoming newcomers — but now they come from Latin America, Asia, Oceania and Africa.

  • Time for immigration reform
    November 12, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    I am writing you this week from Baltimore, where I am taking part in the annual meeting of the Catholic bishops of the United States.

    This is an important gathering every year — a time for all of the Church’s bishops to pray and reflect on the challenges and opportunities we face in our pastoral ministries.