Claudia Avila Cosnahan

Mar 23, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Claudia Avila Cosnahan |César J. Baldelomar |Brad East |Paul Baumann

The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is a 130-foot tall, five-level stack interchange near the Athens and Watts communities of Los Angeles It is considered one of the most complicated interchanges in the U.S., with multiple entries and exits in all directions between the I-105 and the I-110. Returning to LAX from traveling, I always look forward to my husband driving me home through this interchange.

Mar 3, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Claudia Avila Cosnahan |César J. Baldelomar |Brad East |Paul Baumann

The liturgies of the third through fifth Sundays of Lent give faith communities the option to use cycle A readings for the RCIA scrutinies instead of the current cycle B readings.

Mar 2, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Claudia Avila Cosnahan |César J. Baldelomar |Brad East |Paul Baumann

The liturgies of the third through fifth Sundays of Lent give faith communities the option to use cycle A readings for the RCIA scrutinies instead of the current cycle B readings.

Feb 17, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Claudia Avila Cosnahan |James Chappel |Anna Ballan |Rand Richards Cooper

Last summer’s wildfire in Joshua Tree National Park was the largest to burn through the eastern Mojave Desert in recorded history—surpassing the 71,000-acre Hackberry complex fire of 2005, and, as The Los Angeles Times put it, “searing through a delicate ecosystem already strained by invasive species and the burning of fossil fuels.” James Cornett, an ecologist specializing in Joshua trees, was quoted in the same story: “I can say with the utmost certainty that the areas that burn — whether...

Mar 29, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Rita Ferrone |Claudia Avila Cosnahan |Zena Hitz |Dominic Preziosi

Early English stone baptismal fonts (FALKENSTEINFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo) I recently had occasion to visit the church of the parish where I grew up. My family is deeply associated with it: my parents were married there and buried from there; my siblings and I received our first sacraments there; our faith and sense of belonging was nurtured there, in what was always a lively parish community. The church is a little gem of nineteenth-century Romanesque revival architecture.