DIOCESAN ELEMENTARY schools will be rolling out a new program in the 2026-27 school year that focuses on teaching virtues…
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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: UNITED IN FAITH AND COMMUNITY
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS around Orange County and the country will celebrate what it means to be educating students not just in…
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HOW ST. TIMOTHY’S HAT & SCARF MINISTRY ENCOURAGES DIGITAL DETOX ONE STITCH AT A TIME
ON FRIDAY MORNINGS, a small circle of men and women is doing something quietly radical: they’re knitting. Phones disappear into…
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CELEBRATING THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
“THE KINGS HAVE arrived. Please come in!” exclaimed Fr. Juan Navarro, parochial vicar of Christ Cathedral during the solemn Mass…
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FORTALEZA AND THE BUTTERFLY: HOW A DAUGHTER’S GIFT, TESTED BY GRIEF, REVEALED GOD’S PERFECT TIMING
FOR THE ZAPIEN FAMILY, active parishioners of the Diocese of Orange for over two decades, fortaleza (strength) embodies not only…
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CROSS OF GRATITUDE VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHRISTIANS AND Catholics are often called to take up the cross. And while that typically refers to how one conducts…
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A FRIENDLY SOCCER GAME
THE FIRST EVER DIOCESE of Orange Soccer Tournament featuring priests and seminarians squaring off on the pitch brought together parish…
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WITH CITY APPROVAL, VISION FOR CRISTO REY’S NEW HOME UNFOLDS
DREAMS COME IN ALL forms. They may seem hard to envision in the afternoon light slanting into a hollowed out…
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SUPPORT FOR A PAPAL INITIATIVE
THIS AUGUST, BISHOP Kevin Vann, while in Rome during a papal audience with his former classmate Pope Leo XIV, took…
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
THE YEAR 2025 STARTED off notably as a Jubilee Year, an invitation for all Catholics worldwide to rediscover the presence…









