Angelus News | January 14, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 1
On the cover: It can be described as the sacrament of “penance,” “reconciliation,” or more simply, just “confession.” A necessary part of any serious Catholic’s spiritual life, certainly, but can it be something more? On Page 10, Mike Aquilina invokes the life and example of St. Pope John Paul II to make the case that confession is much more than a duty, but actually a right — and perhaps our best shot at the radical conversion God wants to give us.
On the cover: It can be described as the sacrament of “penance,” “reconciliation,” or more simply, just “confession.” A necessary part of any serious Catholic’s spiritual life, certainly, but can it be something more? On Page 10, Mike Aquilina invokes the life and example of St. Pope John Paul II to make the case that confession is much more than a duty, but actually a right — and perhaps our best shot at the radical conversion God wants to give us.
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Students at Holy Name<br />
of Mary School in San<br />
Dimas after the return<br />
to in-person classes in<br />
February 2021.<br />
| VICTOR ALEMÁN<br />
An injustice with consequences<br />
LA’s Catholic schools are still waiting for millions in federal funds for<br />
students in need. A new lawsuit calls the delay ‘egregious.’<br />
BY ANN RODGERS<br />
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles<br />
is suing the Los Angeles Unified<br />
School District (LAUSD) over<br />
millions of dollars in federal funds<br />
that the public school district is legally<br />
required to share with Catholic and<br />
other private schools for assisting<br />
low-income, academically struggling<br />
students with reading, math, and<br />
counseling.<br />
Attorneys for the archdiocese filed<br />
the lawsuit in the Superior Court<br />
of California on Dec. 16, nearly six<br />
months after the California Department<br />
of Education issued a 58-page<br />
“investigation report” that said LAUSD<br />
had committed “egregious” actions in<br />
withholding Title I federal funds from<br />
scores of Catholic schools. The state<br />
gave LAUSD 60 days to begin “timely<br />
and meaningful consultation” with the<br />
archdiocese and to rectify any errors in<br />
calculating student need. The lawsuit<br />
states that LAUSD has taken no such<br />
action.<br />
A statement from the archdiocese says<br />
that inaction by LAUSD “continues<br />
to leave thousands of students in need<br />
without the Title I services they are<br />
legally entitled to under the federal<br />
program, which mandates assistance to<br />
low-income and academically struggling<br />
children regardless of whether<br />
they attend public, private, or religious<br />
schools, particularly during a pandemic.”<br />
18 • ANGELUS • <strong>January</strong> <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2022</strong>
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