Rabbi Mark Diamond, Los Angeles regional director for the American Jewish Committee.
In dealing with several serious issues confronting the church and society today, "the only question is how you respond, not whether you should," said Helen Alvare at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held May 9 in Washington.
As she looks into the second grade classroom at St. Ignatius of Loyola School, Mission San Jose Dominican Sister Mara Anne Palomares smiles.
This month has been a bonanza of classic movies to stir discussion in Christian belief and ethics among Catholic families, courtesy of the Turner Classic Movie Network. Last week saw films depicting saints and sinners.
‘Dog Day’ at Cathedral creates community
Written by R. W. DELLINGER 04 August 2011
The fifth annual Downtown Dog Day Afternoon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels would have distracted Snoopy from chasing the Red Baron long enough to land his Sopwith Camel biplane in the Cathedral’s “plaza of the people” — if the intrepid Beagle could have only found room. This year’s bowwow benefit drew a record 794 dogs and 1,359 people, who carpeted the popular sacred gathering place. The July 26 6-to-9 p.m. happening, in fact, resembled a canine’s outdoor Noah’s ark with a distinct SoCal twist.
30-plus Lay Carmelites profess vows at St. Raphael’s
Written by Robert Dellinger 28 July 2011
“This is just the beginning. I keep on telling people, ‘We’re going to have a hundred in a year-and-a-half who are going to be Carmelites.’ This is just the beginning. And what is it that they’re trying to do? What they are trying to do is what all of us are trying to do. We’re seeking God. That’s what the Carmelite vocation is — seek the face of God and to be open and free to say: ‘I want to walk to Jesus.’ That’s what they’re doing.Glendora parishioners assist in building Kenya parish, school
Written by Doris Benavides 27 July 2011
St. Dorothy Church parishioners Michelle Black and Danielle Vidiello still keep a fresh image of the day they left for Kenya five summers ago carrying eight heavy suitcases.“We had everything you could possibly think of,” Black said. “All kinds of construction supplies: welding masks, nails, screws, saws and toys.”
Signing makes history, students say not time to celebrate yet
Written by Doris Benavides 27 July 2011
Marking what community leaders labeled as a “milestone,” a “historic moment,” Governor Jerry Brown signed July 25 a portion of the DREAM Act and urged Californians to “invest in the people” and to “engage in the debate.”“It is crucial to make an investment in every child that lives and is born in California,” he said during a noon town hall meeting at Los Angeles City College, packed with community and business leaders, state and school officials, students and consuls from different Latin American countries.
Benedictine priest ordained at St. Mary’s
Written by Paula Doyle 27 July 2011
Grandfather-of-three, Patrick Sheridan, was ordained a Benedictine priest during a July 16 concelebrated Mass at St. Mary in Palmdale with Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar, presider, and Abbot Damien Toilolo of St. Andrew’s Abbey. Nearly 300 people attended the ordination liturgy. The offertory gifts were brought up by Father Sheridan’s daughter, Heather, her husband, James, and their three children: Kyndall, Cory and Kennedy.
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