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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Elise Ann Allen |Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros
The U.S. Supreme Court on May 27 rejected an appeal from a coalition of Western Apache people, along with other Native American and non-Indigenous supporters, that sought to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat, Arizona, from destruction by a copper mining giant. The high court left in place lower court decisions that will permit the transfer of Oak Flat in Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Elise Ann Allen |Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros
Over 90,000 pilgrims flocked to Alba de Tormes, Spain, May 11-25, to venerate the incorrupt body of St. Teresa of Ávila -- marking just the third public exposition of her relics since her death on Oct. 4, 1582. Displayed from May 11 to 25 at the Basilica of the Annunciation, the event followed a Vatican-authorized, yearlong study of the saint’s relics by researchers who confirmed her body has remained incorrupt since her death. The study began on Aug.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Elise Ann Allen |Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros
Pope Leo XIV Wednesday appealed for an end to hostilities in both Ukraine and Gaza, asking for dialogue, the cessation of violence, the freedom of Israeli hostages and for humanitarian law to be respected.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Theresa Cisneros |Mike Cisneros |Katie Yoder
When Father Walter Paredes was in the seminary in Peru, a handful of close-knit Augustinian teachers and priests helped in his formation as a future priest. But one stood out from the rest for his biblical knowledge, his ability to unite people, and his empathy: Father Robert Prevost. Paredes, now associate pastor at Mary Immaculate Church in Pacoima, told Angelus that the future Pope Leo XIV was his canon law professor at San Carlos and San Marcelo Seminary in Trujillo, Peru.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros |Katie Yoder
On May 31, Archbishop José H. Gomez will ordain eight new priests for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. In the days leading up to their ordination, we’ll be introducing them all. Age: 40Hometown: VietnamHome parish: Our Lady of Loretto Church, Los AngelesParish assignment: St. Joseph the Worker Church, Winnetka***When Quoc Vo was a kid, his mother would take him to daily Mass. At 4 a.m. Every day.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Jonathan Luxmoore |Elise Ann Allen |Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros
A Polish religious order has requested prayers from Christians worldwide for one of its senior priests, Oblate Father Andrzej Juchniewicz, who was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment on unspecified political charges in Belarus. "He's the second priest to receive a heavy sentence recently, in what's clearly meant as a warning to other clergy not to engage in any public activity," said Father Marcin Wrzos, spokesman for the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Elise Ann Allen |Theresa Cisneros
The Gospel parable of the "wasteful sower" who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path "is an image of the way God loves us," Pope Leo XIV told visitors and pilgrims at his first weekly general audience. The parable can strike people as odd because "we are used to calculating things -- and at times it is necessary -- but this does not apply in love," the pope told an estimated 40,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square May 21.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Elise Ann Allen |Theresa Cisneros
Habemus papam! We have a pope!It has been beautiful to watch how all the world’s attention has been focused on Rome these days. It seems that even in our highly secularized technological societies, people still sense that the Church is more than a human institution; they seem to know that the Church is at the heart of God’s plan for the world and the human race.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Theresa Cisneros |Elise Ann Allen
When Father John Collins first heard of plans for a two-mile Eucharistic procession through the heart of Pasadena, he was slightly surprised. “We’re going down Colorado Boulevard?” Collins, pastor of Saints Felicitas and Perpetua Church in San Marino, remembers thinking.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Elise Ann Allen |Theresa Cisneros
ROME — There’s a sense of irony, many observers have noted recently, that the election of Pope Leo XIV as the first pope from the United States comes after 12 years of a pope who clearly had a chip on his shoulder when it came to Americans. It was no secret that Pope Francis harbored a certain cultural suspicion about the U.S. — perhaps due in part to its colonialist history in Latin America and its past involvement in various coups.
