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Good Shepherd Center: Ongoing mission

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:23

The Good Shepherd Center for Battered Women with Children is also still a convent for nine Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. Their foundress, St. Mary Euphrasia, was a Frenchwoman who had a preferential love for the downgraded, helpless and socially marginalized. During her lifetime (1796-1868) she established 110 houses with more than 2,000 Sisters on five continents.

Prayer breakfast: ‘An opportunity to reaffirm our faith’

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:23

One of the biggest events on the local Catholic calendar takes place at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Sept. 20 as the seventh annual Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast welcomes the archdiocese’s new leader, Archbishop José Gomez, and presents its first female keynote speaker, Dr. Carolyn Woo, incoming CEO and president of Catholic Relief Services.

‘PLACERS’ energize urban schools

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:23

When asked what it was like being a PLACE Corps’ first-year teacher in 2010-2011, Marian Quiroz sighs. “Long. It was very tiring,” says the 23-year-old from Orange County.

St. Columbkille School: ‘It has brought out hope in parents’

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:23

Two weeks ago Wallace Harvey, the stepfather of St. Columbkille School fourth grade student Brianna Maiden, motioned toward the front of his daughter’s school and said to Anna-Maria Rios, principal, “It’s like going to Beverly Hills or Laguna Beach.”