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Tom Hoffarth
Tom Hoffarth is a Los Angeles-based journalist covering news and sports professionally since 1980. He also is employed by Catholic Charities of Los Angeles to assist with homeless outreach in Southern California.
A new report from Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles zeroes in on findings about economic gender inequalities, including that women in the U.S. save annually less than 50% of what men save annually.
A food truck run by the nonprofit Feed My Poor distributes meals at locations across LA each day at noontime. It distributes some 300 hot meals over a three-hour period to those experiencing homelessness.
A Jan. 24 announcement that the Sisters of Notre Dame plan to close a high-performing all-girls Catholic school in Thousand Oaks, California, has generated an impassioned pushback by students, parents and alumnae.
Kerri Murray, president of the disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA, told NCR her Catholic upbringing taught her empathy, a value that imbues her work to provide shelter for people displaced by war and disaster.
A triad of freeways intermingle at the Hollywood Split, and its network of underpasses has been a gathering spot for those experiencing homelessness. St. Charles Borromeo Holy Family Service Center is trying to help.
Jeff Dietrich has persisted on a soulful journey of more than 50 years of journalism, hospitality and civil disobedience at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. In an NCR Q&A, he speaks about his life of service and resistance.
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell was remembered as a man "gripped by grace" and "at ease with movers and shakers and also with the moved and shaken" as nearly 5,000 attended a funeral Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels March 3.
The dark clouds of a weather system of historic proportions added to the heaviness already felt by the thousands at the 2023 LA Religious Education Congress Feb. 23-26 in Anaheim, a week after the death of beloved Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell.
Those grieving the murder of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell often speak through tears recounting his advocacy for immigrants, resourcefulness for those on the margins, and leadership in Catholic education.
For Jesus' parents, "answering God's call meant their whole lives were turned upside down," not unlike the events of the past year, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Feb. 21 at the close of the all-virtual 2021 Religious Education Congress.
Organized by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' Office of Life, Justice and Peace, OneLife LA was once again held the same day as — and just blocks away from — the Women's March, a demonstration in favor of a so-called "right" to abortion, which, like OneLife LA, is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.