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Southern California Catholics joined parishioners from around the world Thursday to celebrate a historic moment with the ...

He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 6, 1956, as the youngest of seven children and was baptized in the Greek Catholic ... pastor of St. Lawrence of Brindisi Church in Los Angeles.

Catholics across California mourned the death of Pope Francis on Monday, paying tribute to his modernization of the Roman Catholic ... in Los Angeles, largely because he nudged the church to ...