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God and the City.
Los Angeles may be better known for its flash and agreed, but the greatest structure of its modern skyline--the new $200 million Lady of the Angels Cathedral--testifies to the power of a greater, and more enduring, urban ideal.
Up close against the concrete ribbon of the 101 Freeway, the cathedral, with its gardens and vast open courtyard, speaks in a great tradition of urbanism that is all too often forgotten in the contemporary age. Inside the cool brown walls, the feeling of sacredness is profound, with a large auditorium, numerous small chapels and a mural of Catholic saints and laymen establishing a strong link from distant church origins to the current day. ...
- The cardinal's highflyin' new nest.(construction of a $200 million Catholic...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Streisand, Betsey September 9, 2002 700+ words
Officially, it's the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. But in many parts of Los Angeles, the $200 million Roman Catholic Church that opens its doors this week is better known as the "Taj Mahony"--a monument to the drive...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Wirpsa, Leslie January 17, 1997 700+ words
...This is the Catholic church. It's another...of God." In Los Angeles, the largest...you are (in Los Angeles), there's...St Agatha's Catholic Church, a largely African...South Central Los Angeles. With such widespread...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter COLBERT, CHUCK April 7, 2000 700+ words
...having been banned from Catholic church property years ago. No doubt...and discrimination." In Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony...mother of a gay son. In the Los Angeles archdiocese, inattentiveness...acknowledgment and redress. In the Los Angeles archdiocese, lack of ...
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- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Rackham, Anne September 16, 1991 700+ words
...Mahoney of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles opposed the broadcast and urged people...president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles-based Cordoba Corp., announced his...COMINT Secretary Richard Perkins, a Los Angeles attorney. "I think they enjoy offending...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times August 10, 1988 700+ words
LOS ANGELES The Roman Catholic Church in the United States threw its weight against the controversial...choosing "between heaven and hell." The film will open Friday in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Toronto, Minneapolis, San Francisco...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Jones, Arthur January 31, 2003 700+ words
...was given." In Los Angeles, Guerra said the...and role of the Catholic church in the two cities...it this way but Los Angeles has historically...he said, in Los Angeles the Catholic church has hardly been...
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- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal KOTKIN, JOEL July 23, 2001 700+ words
...behalf of the poor. High Church Los Angeles is more about geography and...successor elites of contemporary Los Angeles -- the Catholic Church, the foundations, the labor...Hancock Park. High Church Los Angeles is increasingly united by one...
- Immigration activist arrested in Los Angeles.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) August 19, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Antonio Olivo LOS ANGELES _ Federal authorities Sunday...32, shortly after 2 p.m. Los Angeles time, as she and her supporters...historic center of Mexican Los Angeles. The Catholic church is among about a dozen in several...
Source: HighBeam Research, God and the City.