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2022

• Monday, January 18 || Special Issue: Beyond Roe v. Wade
• Friday, January 14 || In Germany, it’s not just ‘Left vs. Right’ but ‘Catholic vs. Something Else’
• Thursday, January 13 || Is the digital age confirming Ivan Illich’s once radical ideas?
• Wednesday, January 12 || The Church’s best kept secret
• Tuesday, January 11 || St. Pope John Paul II and the apostolate of confession
• Monday, January 10 || An LA Catholic school’s unlikely success story
• Friday, January 7 || Under a hurry-up pope, are we seeing a slow-down papacy?
• Thursday, January 6 || A papal pep talk for families
• Wednesday, January 5 || An embarrassing attempt to book Scott Hahn on false charges
• Tuesday, January 4 || Waiting for Dobbs
• Monday, January 3 || Pope Francis at the Angelus: God wants to live with us and in us

2021

• Monday, December 27 || The top 5 Vatican news stories of 2021
• Wednesday, December 22 || On LA’s anxious streets, St. Mother Teresa’s missionaries bring life
• Tuesday, December 21 || Santa Barbara family’s special Nativity scene invites people back to church
• Monday, December 20 || The accidental tragedy of the new ‘West Side Story’ 
• Friday, December 17 || The cure to our accusation addiction
• Thursday, December 16 || Christmas and God’s ultimate answer to our anguish
• Wednesday, December 15 || After a harrowing shooting, Altadena sixth-grader counts Christmas blessings
• Tuesday, December 14 || A light goes on in Bethlehem
• Monday, December 13 || New film about C.S. Lewis’ struggle to believe has something for everyone
• Friday, December 10 || ‘California doesn’t need more abortion,’ bishops say in response to sanctuary plan
• Thursday, December 9 || Salvation for a news junkie
• Wednesday, December 8 ||The care and feeding of true friendship
• Tuesday, December 7 || Why we need the Immaculate Conception
• Monday, December 6 || LA’s ministry for sailors eyes a comeback amid pandemic, port back-up
• Friday, December 3 || Getting back to ‘letting it be’
• Thursday, December 2 || The notion of a vocation
• Wednesday, December 1 || The year of St. Joseph: The start of something bigger?
• Tuesday, November 30 || A season of longing
• Monday, November 29 || Seven ways to welcome Jesus into your everyday life this Advent
• Wednesday, November 24 || Archbishop Gomez: Telling the Catholic Story
• Tuesday, November 23 || The Eucharist and matters of fundamental justice
• Monday, November 22 || Just like Thanksgiving, Vatican drops hints to keep unwanted relatives away
• Friday, November 19 || Could Vin Scully’s prayers get Gil Hodges into the Hall of Fame?
• Thursday, November 18 || U.S. bishops spotlight programs on Eucharist, young people, moms in need
• Wednesday, November 17 || Communion statement aims to ‘retrieve and revive’ understanding
• Tuesday, November 16 || The legacy of my late mother’s love for the Eucharist
• Monday, November 15 || What eucharistic coherence looks like from the pews
• Friday, November 12 || Christianity’s inseparable pair: Martyrdom and the Mass
• Thursday, November 11 || Life, death, and the Eucharist: Why the world needs good liturgy
• Wednesday, November 10 || Abortion and the average Joes and Janes
• Tuesday, November 9 || Catholic school kids harvest hope in a South LA ‘food desert’
• Monday, November 8 || In fighting climate ‘war,’ can the Vatican and US play good cop/bad cop with China?
• Friday, November 5 || Archbishop Gomez warns against rise of ‘new political religions’
• Thursday, November 4 || Family honors slain Marine at East LA Dia de los Muertos event
• Wednesday, November 3 || LA’s local synodal process aims to draw ‘as many voices as possible’
• Tuesday, November 2 || Planned tribute aims to honor Chumash dead at Ventura mission
• Monday, November 1 || How the Virgin Mary became the ‘Queen of History’