COACHELLA - “The people love her; they really do.”

 This simple phrase is found in one of the nomination letters that contributed to Coachella resident Sister Carol Nolan, a Sister of Providence (SP) of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and 1954 graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), receiving one of the College’s most prestigious alumni awards, the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Award.

By Steven Gomez

 Many of you are already familiar with the Get on the Bus program, as our Bishops, our parishes and the faithful have been generous supporters for many years now. Many children have been reunited and re-connected with their mother or father through these efforts. 

By Ashley Elizabeth Limon

CHINO—The summer heat had arrived and the journey was five miles long.

 But that didn’t stop more than 200 local Catholics from walking from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Ontario to Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Chino on June 25 to mark the Jubilee Year of Mercy. 

By Gloria Chavez-Martinez

 Catholic Charities’ Hope in the City Family Resource/Homework Center in San Bernardino is a place where children and their parents find a supportive gathering of neighbors and friends. The Center provides a safe haven for children during the critical afterschool hours, when research shows that students have the least supervision.