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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Few facts, a lot of fiction behind effort to remove El Camino Real mission bells

Californians take pride in the weathered old bells on their staffs spaced along U.S. Route 101 and offshoot roads taken by original padres. But for some, that bell on the road is an insult, and echoes with something akin to Julius  Caesar’s infamous summary of laying waste to Gaul: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Read more from Gregory Orfalea, Angelus News

Related: A ‘Camino’ in California by Gregory Orfalea, Angelus News

CA bishops rally to stop college campus abortion pill mandate

Three California bishops are calling on local Catholics to pray and fight against SB 24, a bill that would require state colleges and universities to provide free access to abortion pills for students. Read more from CNA/Angelus News

Offensive speech, actions a 'growing plague' that 'must end'

Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said recent public comments about Baltimore and the responses have generated "have deepened divisions and diminished our national life." Read more from Catholic Standard/Angelus News

African bishops applaud youth, women at close of high-stakes meeting

At the close of a high-stakes meeting last week, bishops from throughout Africa said the event was a sign of hope, and they also doubled down on their commitment to evangelization. Read more from Elise Harris, Crux/Angelus News

Senators introduce bipartisan paid family leave bill

The Cassidy-Sinema proposal would not expand the child tax credit, but would rather reapportion it so that parents can choose to take a $5,000 benefit up front at the birth of a child. Read more from Matt Hadro, CNA/Angelus News
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Saint Alphonsus Ligouri

  • St. Alphonsus Ligouri was born in Naples in 1696. He became a doctor of civil law at the age of 17, but in 1723, he resigned as a lawyer and entered the seminary. He was ordained a priest three years later. 
  • After a few years in the priesthood, Alphonsus went to Scala, founding the preaching order the Redemptorists. 
  • St. Alphonsus published his book, “Moral Theology,” in 1748.

HS football: Uiagalelei, Young ranked nation’s top HS QBs

The two best high school quarterbacks in the United States can be seen on a weekly basis this fall in Southern CA, leading powerful offenses for their respective Catholic school teams. Read more from Mike Nelson, Angelus News

LMU report: 166 student-athletes make WCC Honor Roll

Flying in the face of presumptions that student-athletes are less the former and more the latter, 166 LMU Lions earned places on the West Coast Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll. Read more from Mike Nelson, Angelus News

Latino immigrants are evangelizing America

Despite financial and immigration hurdles, ministries led by first-generation pastors are more effective than the average church plant, according to a new LifeWay study. Read more from Bekah McNeel, Christianity Today

The inconvenient truth about migration

While migration has always been a natural phenomenon, the increasingly forced migration of people escaping deteriorating conditions is an unnatural disaster driven, in part, by climate disruption. Read more from Joshua Cho, FAIR/Truthdig

A statue of Mary is seen amid flames through a window in the Church of the Visitation in Westphalia, Texas, July, 29, 2019. The nearly 125-year old wooden church with bell towers on each side, burned to the ground that morning. Since 1883 the parish has served the Catholic community of southwestern Falls County, many of whom are descendents of immigrants from the northwest German region of Westphalia. Read more from CNA/Angelus News (CNS photo/courtesy Nathan Wilde)
To be clear, the links here don't necessarily reflect the views of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles or the Catholic Church. They're here to help you understand what your friend, neighbor or colleague might see or think about a given topic in the news. As a people called to live and proclaim the Gospel, our obligation to evangelize means that we must be prepared for conversation wherever we go. The purpose of Always Forward is to help its readers: know and understand news related to our faith; encounter a variety of perspectives on these relevant issues (including those with which we may disagree); and foster spiritual growth. Ultimately, the goal of the newsletter is to equip us to continue the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
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