Friendship today now has so many transactional elements to it. A friendship can be damaged beyond repair if words are not checked carefully before spoken. It wasn’t always this fragile. Some of the most profound friendships in history were forged between people who had very little in common. Some of these friendships even survived two people holding polar opposite views on very important issues. Read more from Robert Brennan, Angelus News
By Chico Harlan and Stefano Petrilli, Washington Post
Students from Epiphany School in El Monte with their parish’s float, which won the contest’s first place $3,000 award. On Sunday, Dec. 5, Catholics from around Southern California hit the streets of East Los Angeles for the 90th annual Guadalupe Procession and Mass, which returned as an in-person event after last year’s car-only procession due to the high number of COVID-19 cases at the time. View more images at AngelusNews.com. (Victor Alemán)
