What love preserves: A 60-year marriage begins a new chapter after the Eaton Fire

Vol. 10 | No. 4 | February 21, 2025

On the cover: Ray and Mary Jo Spano look through a box of love letters from the early 1960s that were saved before their Altadena home burned in the Eaton Fire. Starting on Page 10, Ann Rodgers tells the story of a 60-year marriage built to endure the toughest of trials. On Page 14, associate editor Mike Cisneros reports on how LA’s Catholic schools have mobilized to keep kids displaced by the LA fires in class, and on Page 18, Kimmy Chacón speaks to Latino Catholic workers facing precariousness after the catastrophe.

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