By Andres Rivera
Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO—The church has a task and that is to revive the spirit of discipleship and mission, said Oscar Andres Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga, SDB, during talks to diocesan priests, religious and lay leaders the last week of January.
By Marie Widmann
VICTORVILLE—Standing on a red, white & blue decorated stage, Father John Fahnestock, Vicar Forane of the High Desert Vicariate, proclaimed that the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights movement included respect for the life of every human person.
By John Andrews
Editor
VATICAN CITY, ROME—When Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego spoke briefly with Pope Francis in Rome last month at an international conference on immigration he said the groundbreaking Pontiff radiated all of the qualities that have marked his 21-month papacy.
SAN BERNARDINO—Bishop Gerald Barnes has again called on uninsured persons to seek medical care coverage during the second open enrollment period of Covered California, the private health insurance exchange in California created to facilitate compliance with the federal Affordable Care Act.
By Mary Huber
LOS ANGELES—Every January Catholics and others who support the Culture of Life mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing the termination of a pregnancy by taking to the streets and praying for an end to abortion.
By John Andrews
Editor
RIVERSIDE—Iguala, Mexico is more than 1,600 miles from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Riverside.
But the tragic abduction and presumed death of 43 college students there has stirred sadness and anger in the Riverside parish and other faith communities in the diocese that have strong ties to Mexico.
