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OC CATHOLIC RECIPE SWAP

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I often would help my grandmother make a traditional bread pudding known as capirotada. First,... 

 

LA PURÍSIMA PARISH IS HOOKED ON THE LENTEN FISH FRY

WITH THE FRIDAY FISH Fry traditions playing out across the Orange County Catholic landscape, La Purísima parish in Orange proudly... 

by MEG WATERS 

HOW ST. JOSEPH SAVED THE MISSION

A SICKLY PRIEST FROM Kentucky, a little gray songbird and St. Joseph saved the once-crumbling Mission San Juan Capistrano, one... 

by MEG WATERS 

THE REAL DEAL

ADDISON DEAL’S accomplishments on the basketball court speak volumes. A senior point guard on the Mater Dei basketball team, Deal... 

by LOU PONSI 

BACH-A-THON!

CHRIST CATHEDRAL’S FIRST ever Bach-a-thon was a 19- hour celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, featuring 200 works... 

by LOU PONSI 

Local

FOOD AND CONVERSATION WITH PAPAL DIPLOMAT

WHEN GENERAL Garibaldi laid siege to the Papal States in 1870, he believed that by taking the sizable land holdings…

PAX CHRISTI STUDENT SCORES ON THE RISE

AMONG THE MANY reasons for establishing Pax Christi Academies in the Diocese of Orange was to help the schools improve…

CURSILLO: THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME

IN 1939, AS THE Spanish Civil War drew to a close, Spain’s Roman Catholic Church was recovering from three years…

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Christ Cathedral

PLAYING AND PRAYING AT CHRIST CATHEDRAL

CECILIA PHAN, coordinator of the Young Adult Ministry and Evangelization for the Diocese of Orange, (30s, Young Couples, Young Families)…

THE CHURCH TAKING THE LONG VIEW ON MARRIAGE

IN 2022, THE VATICAN published Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life, a framework that outlines the Church’s desire to more intentionally…

CHRIST CATHEDRAL TO HOST “BACH-A-THON”

THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE and Christ Cathedral music ministry are hosting 19 hours of continuous organ music by J.S. Bach…

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Sports

THINGS ARE GOING SWIMMINGLY FOR BLESSED SACRAMENT’S BIANCA BATANG

STUDENT ATHLETES OFTEN HAVE TO juggle sports with the demands of academics and a social life. It can be a…

HAT-TRICK

AS THE SERVITE HIGH School’s ice hockey coach, Mike Marshall has guided the Friars to championships in three of the…

CALLED TO GUIDE

SOME MIGHT DESCRIBE the sequence of events that placed Alex Ramirez in the position as Servite High School’s new soccer…

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National

OC CATHOLIC AFAR

Fr. Greg Walgenbach (Director of Office of Life, Justice, and Peace & Missions) and Rebecca Freeman (Pastoral Care Ministry Coordinator,…

OC CATHOLIC AFAR

We recently visited Lahaina on the island of Maui and were shocked at the devastation the people are still suffering…

TRAVEL DIARY: THE CHURCH OF THE MADONNA

WHEN THE CHURCH OF the Madonna was built in the Borough of Fort Lee, N.J. during the 1850s, it was…

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FINDING THEIR WAY
CLARA ARBIZO WASN’T EXPECTING much. The parishioner of St. Anne’s in Santa Ana was among 200 young adults who participated...

DIOCESAN BISHOPS AND DELEGATES ATTEND NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — A delegation from the Diocese of Orange recently attended the tenth National Eucharistic Congress in Indiana’s capital city,...

DIOCESE OF ORANGE ANNOUNCES DELEGATION TO NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN INDIANAPOLIS
The Diocese of Orange is proud to announce its delegation to the upcoming National Eucharistic Congress (NEC) scheduled for July...

FILM LETS DEVOTEES PROVIDE VISUAL, EMOTIONAL SUBSTANCE OF LOURDES’ STORY
NEW YORK (CNS) — In the documentary “Lourdes” (Distrib Films), filmmakers Alban Teurlai and Thierry Demaiziere present a moving portrait...

World

OC CATHOLIC AFAR

Alan and Desiree Wendell brought along the OC Catholic on their cruise vacation to Australia and New Zealand where they…

OC CATHOLIC AFAR

Ashley and her father Dr. Vincent Nguyen visited the Vatican Garden while in Rome this past Christmas for the start…

OC CATHOLIC AFAR

Paige Brooks brought along a copy of OC Catholic when she visited the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence,…

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World Headlines

OC CATHOLIC AFAR
Elise Bowles and Nestor Contreras visited the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Norwich, England, and brought along a...

TRAVEL DIARY: LITHUANIA’S HILL OF CROSSES
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA — When most people think of the “most Catholic” countries, they usually think of Poland or the Philippines,...

OC CATHOLIC AFAR
Dr. Elysabeth Nguyen, CEO of the OLLV Foundation, recently visited Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The cathedral was severely damaged...

OC AFAR
I’d like to share a beautiful photo of my family visiting the Church of the Cristero Martyrs in Guadalajara, Mexico....

Education

BREAKING GROUND AT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Catholic School recently broke ground on a long-awaited gymnasium, with a ceremonial shovel gifted to a…

REAGAN KEMMERER LOVES JESUS AND HER COUNTRY

REAGAN KEMMERER, AN eighth grader at St. Junipero Serra Catholic School in Rancho Santa Margarita, continues to deepen her relationship…

STUDENTS SHINE AT ANNUAL ACADEMIC DECATHLON

CECI DEMARIA WAS among 220 middle school students who attended the 29th annual Academic Decathlon held March 1 at Santa…

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Education Headlines

LEADERSHIP IN ORANGE COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
AT THE END OF HIS seventh-grade year at St. Edward the Confessor Parish School in Dana Point, Jack Piazza pondered...

YEAR OF THE SNAKE
THE HISSING CAUGHT ON, quieting the gymnasium and filling the energetic room with the sounds of hundreds of snakes. ST....

A DREAM REALIZED AT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL
EARLY IN 2025, St. John the Baptist Catholic School will begin construction of its new gymnasium. The dynamic education center...

SNOW DAY AS AN EMMANUEL MOMENT
TUESDAY, DEC. 17 marked the 6th Annual Snow Day at St. John the Baptist Catholic School. A STUDENT ENJOYS THE...