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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Scott Hahn |Tom Hoffarth
Where might we experience Jesus today in a world that is seemingly too crowded with its own concerns to allow a space for him? The renowned spirituality writer Tomas Halik, in a recent book entitled “The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change” (University of Notre Dame Press, $35), makes this suggestion.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Scott Hahn |Ronald Rolheiser |Tom Hoffarth
The return of our “Alleluia” is just days away. Outside Lent, it’s sung or recited before the Gospel at Mass. But then it goes away for our 40 days of fasting. It’s just a single word, and it’s so commonly used that we hardly notice it. But it is significant because the Jews of Jesus’ time associated the word primarily with the great feast of Passover — the time each year when they renewed their ancient covenant with God.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |David Agren |Judith Sudilovsky |Carol Glatz
The completion of a vibrant, multi-sided mural that tells the history of St. Mark Church in Venice is the latest project aimed at augmenting an arts-and-media evangelization movement at the parish.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Quinones |Kate Scanlon |Tom Hoffarth
In the midst of intensifying Israeli raids against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Father Talal Hachem, president of Holy Spirit University of Kaslik located just north of Beirut, said in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly” that “because we have faith, because we have hope, we are seeking peace.” An estimated 1 million people in Lebanon have been displaced, according to the country’s prime minister, following Israel’s latest targeted ground raids in southern Lebanon against the terrorist...
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Tom Hoffarth |Robert Brennan
California's Democratic attorney general Sept. 30 sued a Catholic hospital he accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman despite an "immediate threat" to her life. Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka of having a policy that "discriminates against pregnant patients" due to its policy forbidding performing an abortion where a fetal heartbeat is present.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Robert Brennan |Tyler Arnold
Pope Francis is hardly a stranger to One LA-IAF, a local nonprofit affiliated with the national Industrial Areas Foundation. In fact, at least one LA-based community building organizer has been in the room with the pope in each of the last three audiences he’s held with national members. The most recent meeting took place Aug. 28 as part of an ongoing dialogue about its “Recognizing the Stranger” leadership program, which seeks to build up relationships with immigrants in local communities.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Elise Ann Allen |Kate Scanlon |Tom Hoffarth
Pope Francis Wednesday inaugurated the final session of his Synod of Bishops on Synodality, urging participants to be humble in listening to others and to be open to ideas and positions that are different from their own. Speaking during his Oct.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Elise Ann Allen |Tom Hoffarth |Peter Pinedo
With three years to go until the next global World Youth Day (WYD) gathering, officials in the Archdiocese of Seoul, which will host the event, have launched an official preparation process, voicing hope that it will empower young people from across the world. The local path of preparation for WYD 2027 in Seoul was officially launched by the Archdiocese of Seoul July 28 with a special youth event and Mass titled, “Hope Ignites in Seoul.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Elise Ann Allen |Peter Pinedo
The frayed silver-colored tarp wasn’t doing much to hide the makeshift mattress, collection of Big Gulp cups, or the stuffed panda bear strewn across the sidewalk in front of the Good Shepherd Center (GSC) on Beverly Boulevard. All that clutter, GSC program director Sister Jennifer Nguyen told her staff, could make things tricky for anyone leaving the parking structure, and someone hidden amidst the encampment could be accidentally run over. That someone would be Mike.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Tom Hoffarth |Greg Hardesty |Grazie Christie
From Serra to space: How a Gardena grad tackled the test of a lifetime Vol. 9 | No. 13 | June 28, 2024 On the cover: A few months ago, Junipero Serra High School senior Travis Leonard had a science project going into space and a shot at joining USC’s football team on the horizon. On Page 12, Tom Hoffarth has the story of how Leonard pulled through the test of his lifetime: the sudden loss of his father.
