A CALL FOR ATTENTION
When Bishop Kevin Vann paid a visit to Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach on Dec. 16, he revealed his pastoral side by singing Christmas songs in Spanish, praying with staff members and talking to...
View ArticleWINNING THE LONG GAME
Orange County has earned a reputation as a hotbed for high school athletics and is equally blessed to have a number of outstanding prep sportswriters. One of the best at his craft for the past 30-plus...
View Article‘SIMPLE, NOT SILLY’: CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS BECOME BOOK BY POPE FRANCIS
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Children may say the darnedest things, but when it comes to questions about faith they can make even the most learned parents and priests pause. “These are tough,” Pope Francis...
View ArticleDIOCESE SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT TO RECEIVE NATIONAL HONOR
In recognition of his strong Catholic educational philosophy, exceptional abilities, dedication and results, Greg Dhuyvetter, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Diocese of Orange, will receive...
View ArticleBACK TO SQUARE ONE FOR JSERRA GIRLS’ BASKETBALL PROGRAM
Sir Isaac Newton surely didn’t have sports in mind when he theorized ‘what goes up must come down,’ but that phrase could just as easily apply to high school basketball. Talent often arrives on...
View ArticlePOPE ASKS MERCY, PARDON FOR WAYS CHRISTIANS HAVE HARMED ONE ANOTHER
ROME (CNS) — After walking across the threshold of the Holy Door with an Orthodox metropolitan and an Anglican archbishop, Pope Francis invoked God’s mercy upon divided Christians and apologized for...
View ArticleATHLETE PROFILE: ROSARY’S STEPHANIE GASTON, WATER POLO STANDOUT
Without any previous experience playing water polo, or even a background in swimming, Stephanie Gaston went out on a limb and decided to join the water polo team when she arrived at Rosary Academy as a...
View ArticleCATHOLIC SCHOOLS ARE VITAL PART OF CHURCH’S MISSION, ARCHBISHOP SAYS
WASHINGTON (CNS) — National Catholic Schools Week 2016 will be celebrated across the United States Jan. 31- Feb. 6 with the theme “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service.”...
View ArticleCONSIDERING A CATHOLIC EDUCATION
Before parents make a decision about the right elementary and/or high school for their children, they should consider enrolling them in a Catholic school. “The benefits of a Catholic education are...
View ArticleSUPREME COURT TO HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS IN HHS MANDATE CASES MARCH 23
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 29 announced that it will hear oral arguments March 23 in seven pending appeals in lawsuits brought by several Catholic and other faith-based entities...
View ArticleNEW ANAHEIM SHARED SERVICE OFFICE BLESSED
Employees and their families joined community leaders and local residents on a cloudy morning last Saturday to celebrate the blessing of St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare’s new Shared Services office in...
View ArticleEVANGELIZATION: A LIFELONG PROCESS THAT DEEPENS FAITH
Good news. Typically, this isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when a Catholic thinks about evangelization. But in ancient Greek, that’s literally what the word means: Good news. More commonly,...
View ArticleSAINT PROFILE: FRANCIS-XAVIER BIANCHI
Born in Sicily, he was educated at Naples and wanted to enter religious life, despite his father’s opposition. But he persevered and entered the Congregation of Clerks Regular of St. Paul, or...
View ArticleTHE SACRED BRIDGE
On Saturday, Mar. 12, at the Christ Cathedral Cultural Center, the de Angelis Vocal Ensemble will take its audience back in time to the court of Mantua in Renaissance Italy to experience an...
View ArticleMEET DEACON CARLOS & ELVA EUYOQUE
YEARS MARRIED: 41 CHILDREN: 3 GRANDCHILDREN: 6 NUMBER OF YEARS IN THE DIACONATE: 20 WHAT THEY DO FOR FUN: Go to the movies, attend church and go out to dinner HIS FIRST JOB: Carpenter HIS MOST...
View ArticleCIRCUS ACT ENTERTAINS POPE FRANCIS
A group of colorful and animated circus performers had the audience of a lifetime as they entertained Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. This is not the first time the circus has performed at the...
View ArticlePope Francis urges siblings to reconcile during Year of Mercy
The weekly General Audience has returned to St. Peter’s Square. Pope Francis has offered encouragement for estranged families and said the Year of Mercy is a good time for them to “forget the bad...
View ArticleMETAPHORICAL AND MYSTERIOUS
Most people are happy to know that the world did not end on December 21, 2012. In fact, it did not even come close unless you count jumping off the “fiscal cliff,” which Congress was debating at the...
View ArticleGOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU; WILL YOU LET HIM? POPE ASKS
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God doesn’t want to condemn anyone; he wants to save every person in the entire world, Pope Francis said. “The problem is letting him enter one’s heart” to transform one’s life,...
View ArticlePRIESTS SAY MEXICAN PRISONS HAVE IMPROVED, BUT STILL HAVE PROBLEMS
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (CNS) — When Father Alberto Melendez began ministering at the prison in this once-violent border city nine years ago, rival gangs ran criminal operations from behind bars. Riots...
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