Inland Catholic Byte

YCLT empowers youth leaders

About 80 youth from parishes throughout the Diocese of San Bernardino participated in the annual Youth Christian Leadership Training, a five-day leadership training retreat offered by the diocesan Ministry with Youth Office at St. Anne in the Mountai...

Bishop del Riego presides over Norma Lopez funeral Mass

A funeral Mass for Norma Lopez, the Moreno Valley teen whose life was tragically taken earlier this month, took place Thursday at St. Christopher Church. Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego presided over the Mass. Hundreds packed the church, parish ha...

Bishop Barnes releases statement on Arizona Immigration Law

In response to a recent hold placed on part of the Arizona state immigration law scheduled to take affect on Thursday, Bishop Gerald Barnes has released a statement joining in support with other bishops against the Arizona law and for a more comprehe...

Ordination date announced for transitional deacon Gamino

Bishop Gerald Barnes announced earlier this month that Alex Gamino, currently a transitional deacon at Holy Innocents Parish, Victorville, will be ordained a diocesan priest at 2 p.m. on Oct. 15 at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Parish, Yucaipa. Gamino w...

10 students receive Fr. Bell Scholarships

Bishop Gerald Barnes awarded Father Joseph Bell Scholarships to ten students currently attending or planning to attend the Catholic high schools in the Diocese earlier this year.

Named to memorialize Father Joseph Bell, who was the first advisor to th...

Nigerian Bishop Visits Diocese

Bishop Victor Adibe Chikwe visited the Diocesan Pastoral Center on Friday where he met privately with Bishop Gerald R. Barnes. Bishop Chikwe ministers in the Diocese of Ahiara in Nigeria. Several priests now ministering in the Diocese of San Bernardi...

Brennan appointed president of Aquinas High School

Dr. James Brennan has been appointed as president and chief administrator of Aquinas High School in San Bernardino. Brennan served as Superintendent of Schools for the diocese for six years and later as principal of Sacred Heart School in Palm Desert...

Do realizes dream of priesthood with ordination

RANCHO CUCAMONGA—A dream that began in his early teens in his home country of Vietnam became reality for Timothy Truong Do on May 29.

He is now Father Timothy Truong Do, the newest priest to be ordained in the Diocese of San Bernardino.

Fr. Do was surr...

St. Peter & St. Paul School cleared to expand

ALTA LOMA—After 26 years of educating three, four and five-year olds, St. Peter and St. Paul School in Alta Loma will become a full-fledged elementary school, having recently won approval from the diocese to expand to a kindergarten-5th grade campus....

Parishioners encounter Christ’s love in the Shroud

Maureen Villena
St. Catherine of Siena, Rialto

TURIN—Thirty-eight pilgrims made a wonderful pilgrimage to Italy in April. The highlight of the trip was the privilege to venerate and pray before the Holy Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ...