POPE FRANCIS HAS NEW ALBUM “WAKE UP”
The Pope’s most significant speeches delivered during his 30-month papacy have been combined with music taken from Vatican Radio to create an album titled “Wake Up!” Eleven speeches that contain...
View ArticleFARMLAND CELEBRATES YEAR OF MERCY WITH LAND ART
In the north of Italy, an Italian land artist has created a new piece of art that celebrates the Year of Mercy, using a tractor and a plow. The 24,000-square meter work shows the suffering Christ who...
View ArticleA CHURCH THAT IS EVER ANCIENT AND EVER NEW
This is the second part of a three-part feature story written by Monsignor Holquin that will appear this month in Orange County Catholic in which he discusses three of the most significant documents...
View ArticleSAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL CHOSEN AS ‘ENGINEER YOUR WORLD’ SCHOOL
Dr. Terri Mendoza, principal of Saint Joseph High School, announced yesterday the school’s selection as an Engineer Your World school for the 2016-2017 school year. Engineer Your World is an...
View ArticleHOT WINTER SPORTS ACTION, ON ICE
It is difficult to imagine that ice hockey is only considered a club sport within Trinity League high schools, because few sports are as hard-hitting, fast-paced and filled with drama as the unabashed...
View Article‘TWAS THE MASS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Is the Christmas Vigil Mass intended for kids? After all, it makes for a late evening, it can be crowded, parking can sometimes be a problem and it’s going to last longer than usual. For enthusiastic...
View ArticleTHE ‘WAZE’ OF PROVIDENCE
Just after I was named auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, Archbishop Gomez, my new boss, told me to get the Waze app for my iPhone. He explained that it was a splendid way to navigate the often...
View ArticlePOPE RECOGNIZES MIRACLE NEEDED TO DECLARE MOTHER TERESA A SAINT
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, thus paving the way for her canonization. Pope Francis signed the decree for...
View ArticleSATELLITE BUILT BY STUDENTS AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL HEADS TO SPACE STATION
ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — The fourth time proved to be the charm for a Catholic school project to send a satellite to space. After three scrubbed launches, a CubeSat built by students at St. Thomas More...
View ArticleCATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE MOVIE REVIEW: ‘STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS’
NEW YORK (CNS) — With “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (Disney), the most popular series in film history resurfaces after a 10-year hiatus. This is the seventh installment in the franchise as well as the...
View ArticleEMBRACING “THE OTHER”
In the shadows of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, lonely in the barren, windblown dust that was once a peach orchard, stands a brilliantly white stone obelisk inscribed with three large Japanese...
View ArticleFOLLOW CHRIST ON THE PATH OF FORGIVENESS, NOT VENGEANCE, POPE SAYS
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To follow a path toward Christ, one must follow the good path of forgiveness, peace and solidarity, and avoid following the evil path of vengeance, war and selfishness, Pope...
View ArticleATHLETE PROFILE: MEET SERVITE HIGH SCHOOL’S ZANE ROJAS
Servite High School senior Zane Rojas has been playing soccer since he was 4 years old, and while his time in the game has been filled with memorable moments, none compare to the moment the Friars...
View ArticleOC CHRISTMAS CONCERT AT CHRIST CATHEDRAL TO BE BROADCAST LIVE ON KDOC-TV
A very special holiday concert that benefits the Jessie Rees Foundation will be held at Christ Cathedral on Dec. 23 at 8 p.m. The “OC Christmas Extravaganza” will feature music and singing by finalists...
View ArticleMEET DEACON GERHARD & MARY CATHERINE STADEL
YEARS MARRIED: 43 CHILDREN: 3 GRANDCHILDREN: 5 YEARS AS A DEACON: 12 HOW THEY MET: Through a mutual friend WHAT THEY DO FOR FUN: Go to plays, travel, spend time with friends and family HIS MOST...
View ArticleA SEASONAL LOOK BACK, AND FORWARD
Time sure flies. It seems as if only a few weeks ago we were putting away our beach umbrellas and breaking out the Halloween decorations. Now, just like that, it’s Christmastime. The colorful Yuletide...
View ArticleTHE ROAD TO STROKE RECOVERY
Joey Gee, D.O., a stroke and headache specialist at Mission Hospital, recently saw a patient who came to the ER with stroke symptoms. “The individual was at home when she began having difficulty...
View ArticleVATICAN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF BISHOP DOMINIC DINH MAI LUONG
The Vatican on Sunday announced the retirement of Bishop Dominic Dinh Mai Luong, D.D. of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, effective January 2016. Father Steve Sallot, Vicar General, said in a...
View ArticleSAINT PROFILE: MARY DI ROSA
Paula di Rosa left school at 17 to keep house for her father, an Italian textile-mill owner. She also took on the welfare of the factory girls, and she and the widowed Gabriela Echenos-Bornati nursed...
View ArticleCONGRESS OKS CONTINUED FUNDING OF ADULT STEM-CELL RESEARCH, TREATMENT
WASHINGTON (CNS) — With bipartisan support in the House and Senate, the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act passed Dec. 16 and has been sent to President Barack Obama’s desk for his...
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