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WITH A GIANT PAPER donut covered in pink frosting and colorful sprinkles taped to her front, grandma Mary Owen knelt…

SOMETIMES THE MOST resonant messages come from others who look and sound like us. In part, that was the reasoning…

THE MOST ROMANTIC holiday of the year is here, and Orange County Catholic is ready to celebrate. In honor of…

MARY GALLOWAY remembers giving a prayer shawl to a fellow parishioner at St. Kilian Catholic Church, who had recently lost…

BOIL THE OIL AND MIX UP the batter. It’s that time of year again. The Lenten season is fast approaching,…

DIOCESAN ELEMENTARY schools will be rolling out a new program in the 2026-27 school year that focuses on teaching virtues…

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS around Orange County and the country will celebrate what it means to be educating students not just in…

ON FRIDAY MORNINGS, a small circle of men and women is doing something quietly radical: they’re knitting. Phones disappear into…

“THE KINGS HAVE arrived. Please come in!” exclaimed Fr. Juan Navarro, parochial vicar of Christ Cathedral during the solemn Mass…

FOR THE ZAPIEN FAMILY, active parishioners of the Diocese of Orange for over two decades, fortaleza (strength) embodies not only…