If they were all LEGAL, working (not on public assistance), paying taxes, speaking english, this would be a heart-warming story.
NewCents, that is exactly my read. Good thing, they are in church. Bad thing, the Archdiocese is SO liberal; they are probably speaking pro-Aztlan, pro-illegal-immigration blather to everyone who attends.
I'd say the CC is thriving in So Cal and people are holding the orthodox faith in spite of the diocese, from what I see.
Roger Mahony is famous for annually sponsoring Catechetical Congresses (Diocese-wide religious ed conventions) with workshops speakers sampling the whole spectrum of alternative agendas: Marxist, feminist, Jungian, New Age, and all that crap. I absolutely don't understand how he gets away with it year after year.
And what does THAT have to do with these supposedly morally conservative, pro-life, traditionally devotional Mexicans?
L.A. Catholics, want to chime in here and 'splain it all to us?