• L.A. Archbishop: ‘Deportation alone is not an immigration policy’
    August 29, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    As a Sept. 5 deadline looms for President Donald Trump to either cancel a program providing relief from deportation for children of undocumented immigrants or face a lawsuit by 10 state attorneys general, Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles on Tuesday said eliminating the protection would be “tragic” and that “deportation alone is not an immigration policy.”

  • Moving forward on immigration
    August 29, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    As members of Congress return to Washington from their August recess, once more the air is filled with rumors and tensions over immigration.

  • AVANZANDO EN EL TEMA DE LA INMIGRACIÓN
    August 28, 2017  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    Ahora que los miembros del Congreso están regresando a Washington después de su descanso de agosto, el ambiente está lleno una vez más de rumores y tensiones sobre el tema de la inmigración.

  • 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.