REMEMBERING ’24 HOURS FOR THE LORD’
March 4th and 5th were designated by Pope Francis as “24 Hours for the Lord.” The worldwide event was designed to focus Catholics on receiving God’s mercy through prayer, reflection and...
View ArticleCHRIST CATHEDRAL: A CAMPUS IN TRANSITION
Over the past four years the Christ Cathedral campus has quickly become a beautiful, updated and vibrant center for our Diocese. Beginning in January of 2012 with the renovation of the Arboretum and...
View ArticleVATICAN STATISTICS REPORT INCREASE IN BAPTIZED CATHOLICS WORLDWIDE
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The number of baptized Catholics worldwide has grown at a faster rate than that of the world’s population, according to Vatican statistics.Although the number of priests has...
View ArticleHOME ON THE RANGE
With the basketball season winding down and the warmer weather upon us, it’s once again time for the high school boys’ golf season to showcase its talents.In January Curtis Robinson was named Mater...
View ArticleCATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS GET CHANCE TO TALK TO ASTRONAUT ON SPACE STATION
RUTLAND, Vt. (CNS) — Students at Christ the King School in Rutland got a firsthand experience of the vastness of God’s creation and the work of astronauts aboard the International Space Station as...
View Article18 OC DIOCESE SCHOOLS COMPETE IN JUNIOR HIGH ACADEMIC DECATHLON
Demonstrating a love of learning, 18 Catholic elementary schools from the Diocese of Orange gathered at Santa Margarita Catholic High School on March 5 for the 20th annual Junior High Academic...
View ArticleST. JOSEPH’S DAY AND RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS CELEBRATION TO HONOR VETS
Mission San Juan Capistrano plans new activities during St. Joseph’s Day and the Return of the Swallows Celebration on Saturday, March 19. A flyover by the Condor Squadron, as a tribute to America’s...
View ArticleTACSC’S MISSION: DEVELOP LEADERS WHO WILL IMPACT THE WORLD
Catholic student leaders gathered at Santa Margarita Catholic High School earlier this month for a Leadership Day hosted by TACSC (The Association of Catholic Student Councils). This marked the very...
View ArticleDEVELOPMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN
Think the self-driving car, robots that have mastered legged locomotion, and machines that recognize faces, respond to speech, translate between languages and even answer questions.It’s all part of the...
View ArticleVATICAN STATISTICS REPORT INCREASE IN BAPTIZED CATHOLICS WORLDWIDE
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The number of baptized Catholics worldwide has grown at a faster rate than that of the world’s population, according to Vatican statistics.Although the number of priests has...
View ArticleFASTING: A FEAST FOR THE SOUL AND A PATH TO FREEDOM
For thousands of years people of all cultures and religions have embraced fasting as a discipline to atone for sin, ward off evil, or obtain spiritual favors. During Lent Catholics are encouraged to...
View ArticleBISHOP BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LADERA RANCH
On Monday, marking the end of 11 years of fundraising and the energetic building of the parish community, the Most Rev. Tod Brown, Bishop Emeritus, broke ground on Holy Trinity Catholic Church’s new...
View ArticleKNIGHTS INVITE YOU TO TEE UP FOR LOCAL CHARITIES
The Annual Michael Doss Charity Golf Tournament will take place April 15 at the Coyote Hills Golf Course in Fullerton, with proceeds supporting a number of local charities and community services...
View ArticleVATICAN TO HOST INTERNATIONAL SOCCER TOURNAMENT
A passion for soccer exists in the Vatican because the Pope is a sports fan. Many of the world’s best soccer players have visited Rome to meet with the Pope.Few know, however, that for 10 years the...
View ArticleREFLECTIONS ON HOLY WEEK
Palm Sunday is this Sunday. Holy Week – the season during which we commemorate the very beginnings of Christianity – has begun with the blessing of the palms and Catholics everywhere will participate...
View ArticleCRUX WEBSITE TO PARTNER WITH KNIGHTS AFTER BOSTON GLOBE PULLS PLUG
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Crux, an online news feed about the Catholic world established a year and a half ago by the Boston Globe, will get a new partner effective April 1 after the Globe announced March 11...
View ArticleWAY OF CROSS AN ESPECIALLY STRONG LENTEN TRADITION IN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
KINGSBURG, Calif. (CNS) — Every year on Good Friday, Catholic communities throughout the world re-enact the Way of the Cross with live performances of the story of Christ’s final journey of his earthly...
View ArticleTHE NUMBER OF CATHOLICS CONTINUES TO GROW
For every 100 people in the world, 18 are Catholic. From 2013 to 2014 there has been an increase of 18 million Catholics, according to the most recent Vatican statistics.The number of priests and...
View ArticleMEET DEACON RANDY & LINDA MCMAHON
YEARS MARRIED: 35YEARS AS A DEACON: 8HOW THEY MET: “A blind date at the Marine Corps Birthday Celebration at Camp Pendleton. We were both assigned to that base at the time. Mutual friends introduced...
View ArticleROLL OVER, POOR RICHARD: CATHOLIC ALMANAC WELL INTO ITS SECOND CENTURY
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Thinking in terms of the little engine that could, the annual Catholic Almanac, which sells about 5,000 copies each year, not only could, it can and does, each and every year since...
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