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Select a news topic from the list below, then select a news article to read.Blessed Sacrament receives Parish Life Director
Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:11
The first Parish Life Director at a Jesuit-sponsored parish was installed July 17 at Blessed Sacrament Church in Hollywood.Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark and Jesuit Father John McGarry, Provincial, concelebrated the installation Mass of Yolanda Scott Brown, DMin., before an assembly of nearly 1,000 people. Brown most recently served seven years as Pastoral Associate at Dolores Mission in Boyle Heights, also a Jesuit-administered parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
S.F. official proposes regulating crisis pregnancy centers
Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:11
A San Francisco supervisor introduced legislation Aug. 2 aimed at stopping pro-life medical clinics from using "misleading advertising" in billboards and in pay-per-click Google ads that implies they offer abortion or abortion referrals.
The legislation is part of a campaign by NARAL Pro-Choice America to require crisis pregnancy centers to state up front that they do not provide abortions. The U.S. District Court ruled in January that Baltimore's ordinance violated pregnancy centers' right to free speech and the city of Baltimore has appealed.
Contraceptives, health insurance and religious exemptions
Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:11
State contraceptive mandates are widespread, but not as broad as HHS plan.In more than half of the states, Catholic officials have been living for years with mandates that health insurance plans must cover FDA-approved contraceptives in their prescription drug plans.
From N.H. to L.A.: Warm reunion after five decades of prayer
Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:11
Anita Theresa Lafond was 10 years old when a Holy Cross nun at her grammar school in New Hampshire asked her to pray — in memory of Anita’s father, who had just died from pancreatic cancer — for a group of seven recently ordained Oblates of Mary Immaculate priests.Fifty-one years later, Lafond was “pleasantly surprised” to see in a Tidings’ story (May 5, 2011) where her “prayers had taken” one of the missionaries listed on the card that she has kept throughout the years (it now rests on a “prayer altar” next to her bed).
Obituaries, Aug. 5, 2011
Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:11
Fr. Robert Byrne, former pastor of St. Cyprian, dies
Funeral Mass was held July 20 at St. Cyprian, Long Beach, for Father Robert Byrne, 86, a retired priest of the archdiocese who died July 13.More Articles...
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