This past Easter Octave was particularly precious to me, and to many in my community, as they have told me. The dirtier and darker our culture becomes, the more necessary clean, well-lighted places become. Take Kevin, for example. He moved
The Capuchin Family Kitchen Food Truck made its debut on Palm Sunday weekend in San Francisco. Based in Los Angeles, the food truck visited the city to prepare for a San Francisco version based out of the National Shrine of
Surrounded by apartment buildings and retirement homes, and less than 1,000 feet from three public schools, an active oil drill site is hidden just behind a green fence and a row of carefully manicured trees. Two gates on
A group of Catholic bishops will visit San Quentin Prison’s death row inmates on Tuesday as inmates await transfer to other facilities in light of California’s moratorium on executions.
Jaime Diaza, a parishioner at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that needed to be surgically removed. As Diaz lay in his hospital bed, he prayed to St. Maria Soledad,
After the first group of 33 inmates filed into the chapel of LA Men’s Central Jail the morning of Dec. 25 came the first Christmas surprise: due to an unspecified “situation” at the jail that morning, they’d be
Some of the food packed by volunteers last June in the Million Meal Event is being distributed to the poorest families in Tijuana and elsewhere in Baja California.
In Orange County, the longest night is often the coldest. Public coroner records show that this year nearly 500 people died on our streets, an increase of about 100 from last year. These deaths keep rising each year.
Carrying out an annual tradition, Restorative Justice Christmas Card volunteers gathered for two days to prepare hundreds of goody bags for the people in San Francisco’s jails . The project is an effort to bring a bit of
It started with a single case of water. In 2008, Brendon O’Shea, a parishioner at St. Martin de Porres Church in Yorba Linda, was asked by a friend if he would like to
