Church listening to voices of teens, marginalized
SAN DIEGO — Organizations that serve marginalized communities continued to hold synod sessions with their populations at prisons, sites that serve the homeless and refugee…
Bring your rosary to these parishes’ movie nights
SAN DIEGO — The diocese wants to take you out to the movies. In collaboration with two parishes, the Office for Family Life and…
Views about abortion often contradictory in polls
WASHINGTON — How to make sense of Americans’ attitudes toward abortion? It isn’t easy. In polls, many respondents will give answers that contradict each…
Bishop, diocesan director address criminal justice reform at national conference
WASHINGTON — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy and Robert Ehnow served as the opening speakers at the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network’s Inaugural Conference…
Diocese bids farewell to Bishop Brom
SAN DIEGO — Bishop Robert McElroy presided over the funeral Mass on May 17 for Bishop-Emeritus Robert Brom at St. Théresè of Carmel Church,…
Catholic-Anglican unity requires walking, working together, Pope says
VATICAN CITY —Divided Christians must recognize how their sins have fractured Christ’s church, be honest about the struggles their communities are facing and be…
High school transformed during pandemic
By Sister Lupita Hernández, SJS CALEXICO — Vincent Memorial Catholic High School, the only Catholic high school in the Imperial Valley, returned to in-person learning…
Pope: Migrants bring new life to parishes
VATICAN CITY — Catholic communities are invited to grow in the joy of encounter and to recognize the new life that migrants bring with…
Parishioners called to fight climate change
WASHINGTON — Representatives of Catholic organizations called upon parishioners to address climate change through actions in their lives and advocacy with political leaders following…
Obituaries: Msgr. Lloyd Bourgeois, Sister Jane Robert Stuckel, Sister Patricia Laverne Erickson
Msgr. Lloyd Bourgeois SAN DIEGO — Msgr. Lloyd Bourgeois, a retired priest of the Diocese of San Diego, died March 17. He was 91.…
St. Rose of Lima student is national winner
SAN DIEGO — Joie De La Rosa, an eighth-grader at St. Rose of Lima School in Chula Vista, is a first-place winner in the…
