A window of opportunity for young undocumented immigrants to achieve temporary legal residency officially opened on August 15 when the federal government revealed the application process for “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.”
A call to renewal
At certain times in the history of the Church, popes have called upon the faithful to dedicate themselves to deepening their understanding of a particular aspect of the faith. In 1967, Pope Paul VI announced a Year of Faith commemorating the 19th centenary of the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul.
A Sister’s Story
Despite the loss of her mother and brother to violence, Sr. Terry Maher stands against the death penalty.
You couldn’t have blamed Sister Terry Maher for trying to write the letter.
Her brother, a police officer and a supporter of the death penalty, had been shot and killed in the line of duty. She knew he would have wanted her to write it. On top of that, he was the second member of Sr. Terry’s immediate family who had died at another’s hand. Her mother had been killed by a drunk driver 30 years earlier.
Two priests take on key new formational roles in the diocese
GRAND TERRACE—It wasn’t too long ago that Father Javier Gonzales-Cabrera and Father Jorge Garcia were discerning their vocation and then taking their first steps toward the priesthood in seminary life.
The two young priests, ordained together in 2008, are embarking on new ministries that will take them back to their formative years, only this time as mentors.
Diocese welcomes two new department directors, ministry director
By Andres Rivera
Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO—Sister Mary Chilee Okoko, D.M.M.M., says she feels that her entire life has prepared her for a new role. She joins Joyce Drake and Jose Luis Elias in entering new leadership positions in the diocese’s Ministry of Life, Dignity and Justice; Ministry of Educational Services and Ministry Formation Institute, respectively.
‘I was ill and you cared for me’
Palm Desert pastor and his parishioners reach out to poorest of the poor on a 10-day summer mission to Nicaragua
PALM DESERT—Father Howard Lincoln of Sacred Heart Church in Palm Desert has rallied his congregation to help the impoverished farmworkers of Mecca and Duroville with everything from periodic food drives to funding for a new church.