• MARY, FOUNDRESS OF AMERICA
    August 28, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    Earlier this summer, I led the first pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Like many other immigrants to this country, I have a strong devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. I learned it from my parents when I was growing up in Monterrey, Mexico. Many summers, my mother and father would take my sisters and me on a 600-mile journey to visit our grandparents in Mexico City. And when we went, we would make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. My experience was not unique. In Mexico, many Catholic families try to make a pilgrimage to the Basilica at least once a year.

  • Divisions set in boys’ water polo, girls’ tennis
    August 25, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Divisional alignments have been established (for the most part) by the California Interscholastic-Southern Section for boys’ water polo and girls’ tennis, both of which begin regular season competition Aug. 21.

  • Cardinal Cupich and Archbishop Gomez Strongly Denounce Racism
    August 24, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    n Chicago Catholic, Cardinal Blase Cupich writes:

    While humanity is divided by culture, heritage and language, God created us to be one human family, one race — the human race.

  • LA ARCHDIOCESE BEGINS SCHOOL YEAR BY EXPANDING INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TO MORE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    August 23, 2017  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    Schools throughout the Archdiocese Launch Dual Language Immersion and Blended Learning Programs Nearly 80,000 students, from transitional kindergarten to 12th grade, in 266 schools across …

  • St Pius X–St Matthias in Downey takes another leap forward
    August 23, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    The City of Downey is blessed to have five high schools within our 12.5 square miles. Many can name the bigger ones like Downey High and Warren High. But along with Columbus and Calvary Chapel High School, we have a fifth one that is celebrating a new milestone in Downey.

  • CIF-SS pre-season polls announced; Mater Dei, Paraclete No. 1 in football
    August 23, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    The Mater Dei Monarchs and Paraclete Spirits each received No. 1 rankings in their respective divisions according to the initial CIF-Southern Section football polls released Aug. 21, just prior to the start of the regular season for most high school teams this week.

  • The Romero Centennial among the bishops
    August 23, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    During the 1982 anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, a slogan emerged which would resonate in many future commemorations of the martyr bishop: “We want more bishops like Archbishop Romero.” It was a popular veto of sorts against an episcopate perceived as too far removed from the style now promoted by Pope Francis: of “shepherds with the odor of sheep”—or, as the slogan put it, “who align themselves with the poor.” Quite a long time has passed since those days, and now many bishops seem to want to take up the style of the former Archbishop of San Salvador. We examine the praise that twelve of them gave to the martyred archbishop during the recent commemorations of the centenary of his birth.

  • LA Archdiocese begins school year by expanding innovative educational programs to more Catholic schools
    August 23, 2017  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Nearly 80,000 students, from transitional kindergarten to 12th grade, in 266 schools across the tri-county Archdiocese (Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties) have headed back to school with several schools launching new language and technology programs and breaking ground on school expansion projects. Established more than 100 years ago, Catholic schools in the Archdiocese provide faith-based education where students receive tools for success in college and in their future careers focused on a commitment to service to their local and global communities.

  • In wake of violence, archbishop urges Catholics to foster racial peace
    August 22, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    Responding to violence caused by the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Archbishop of Los Angeles said the message in this week’s Gospel is one of inclusion, no matter a person’s race or nationality.

  • Judson Studios Takes a 12th-Century Art Form Into the 21st Century
    August 21, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    In the little-known, long-forgotten Northeast LA enclave of Garvanza – once a thriving community along the Arroyo Seco, named after the garbanzo bean plants that used to flourish there – you’ll find Judson Studios, where its master craftsmen have actively cut, painted, and assembled glass since 1920.