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  • Guitarist Tony Melendez at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
    April 29, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

  • We are called to be saints
    April 29, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    This past weekend, we joined the universal Church in offering thanks and praise to God for our two new saints — the great 20th century popes, St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II.

    Their canonizations show us that, even in our deeply secular age, the world is still moved by the example of holiness.

  • Priests of mercy, prophets of peace
    April 24, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    I hope you all had a beautiful and peaceful Easter with your family and loved ones!

    In Rome this coming Sunday, Mercy Sunday, our Holy Father Pope Francis will canonize two of his predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, making them saints.

  • Outfitting a Saint
    April 24, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Few people can say that they’ve designed clothes for a saint. But Mission Hills-based artist Lalo Garcia will be able to make that claim starting this Sunday, April 27, when popes John Paul II and John XXIII are canonized in the Vatican.

  • Pilgrimage to Rome
    April 23, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    Frances Mercado (left) and Carol Fritz met in 1986 at St Raphael Church in Santa Barbara. Having lost touch over the years, they reunited in …

  • Easter and the blessings of the Kingdom
    April 17, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    We have a vocation to blessedness. This is what the Beatitudes of Jesus teach us.

    The path of the Beatitudes leads out from Christ’s empty tomb. We can walk this path because by his love Jesus conquered the hatred of sin and the corruption of death.

  • The beatitude of the persecuted
    April 10, 2014  |  The Latest  |  

    This Sunday we begin Holy Week. Our Lenten journey has led us to the final hours of Our Lord’s life, in which he suffered torture and death on the Cross.

    All through his ministry, Jesus had prepared his disciples for his Passion. He told them that he would have to suffer many things, that he would be rejected, insulted, humiliated and killed.

  • CEF Senior Mass honors 650 students
    April 9, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    The accomplishments of hundreds of graduating high school seniors — recipients of tuition assistance from the Catholic Education Foundation — were celebrated during a Mass April 9 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

  • Immigrants need mercy, justice, religious leaders at L.A. vigil say
    April 4, 2014  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Several of Southern California’s most prominent religious leaders gathered in downtown Los Angeles early Friday in a vigil for immigration reform, underscoring a growing interfaith effort to change the nation’s immigration laws.

    Several of Southern California’s most prominent religious leaders gathered in downtown Los Angeles early Friday in a vigil for immigration reform, underscoring a growing interfaith effort to change the nation’s immigration laws.

  • Interfaith clergy awareness of juvenile justice issues increases
    April 3, 2014  |  Around the ADLA, The Latest  |  

    Community Bible Church’s Senior Pastor Ruett Foster shared his own story to help the teenagers he sat with at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall open up and talk about their own lives.

    And Imam Abuishaq Abdulhafiz, from the Islamic Shura Council, was awestruck by the maturity of the teenage girls housed in the only female unit at the Sylmar detention center.