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  • Pentecost and the gifts of the Spirit
    June 5, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    This Sunday we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost, and the end of the Easter season.

    In addition to our Pentecost celebration on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, this year we are also holding a special Mass on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the Cathedral, with all the “ecclesial movements” that represent the beautiful diversity of spiritual gifts in our Archdiocese.

  • St. Turibius wins CYO soccer title
    May 30, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    The St. Turibius School boys’ soccer team won its third straight CYO boys soccer title May 18, defeating St. Lawrence Martyr of Redondo Beach 3-1, to continue the Warriors’ three-year winning streak (their last defeat was in May 2011).

  • New L.A. priests: ‘Humbled and honored to be called’
    May 28, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    Two native Angelenos, a New Yorker and a Mexican-born Juan Diego House seminarian will be ordained May 31 to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

    Archbishop José Gomez will ordain Fathers Andrew Chung, Christopher Felix, Juan Ochoa and John Palmer in a morning Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. All have completed their theological formation at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, including year-long internships at parishes throughout the archdiocese, and recently completed service as transitional deacons.

  • History and suffering in the Holy Land
    May 22, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    This week, our Holy Father Pope Francis makes his first trip to the Holy Land.

    His pilgrimage reminds us that our Christian faith is rooted in the history and geography of the land that was made holy because God once walked upon it.

  • ACE celebrates Catholic education at Immaculate Conception
    May 16, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

  • Rediscovering the Rosary
    May 15, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    May is Mary’s month and the Rosary is Mary’s prayer.

    It is a simple prayer, one that many of us learned as children. And as we grow older, the Rosary grows with us.

  • LAPD Officer Roberto Sanchez eulogized as a hero at department’s third funeral in weeks
    May 14, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    A Los Angeles police officer killed when a driver allegedly purposely rammed his car in Harbor City was remembered Wednesday as “a hero on the streets of L.A.”

  • Beck mourns loss of LAPD officer; ‘today the grief is different’
    May 14, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    For the third time in two months, hundreds of police officers filled a downtown Los Angeles cathedral Wednesday morning to bid an emotional farewell to an LAPD officer killed in a car crash.

  • A procession of funerals: ‘How many blue angels does God need?’
    May 14, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    The coffin of LAPD Officer Roberto Sanchez is placed into a hearse after a funeral Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Wednesday, evoking emotions from his parents, Francisco and Patricia Sanchez, left, and wife, Sonia Sanchez.

  • What does it mean to have a vocation?
    May 8, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    As we do every year on the fourth Sunday of Easter, this Sunday we join the universal Church in praying for vocations to the priesthood and the religious and consecrated life.

    In his message for this year’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis invites all of us “to listen to the voice of Christ that rings out in the Church and to understand what their own vocation is.”