• Ash Wednesday
    March 4, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Esperanza Velasquez prays after getting ashes on Ash Wednesday at Santa Clara Roman Catholic Church in Oxnard. The parishioners got ashes after the 8 a.m. Mass. I can’t explain this photo, but it just feels good to me. After talking to Velasquez I learned she is a grateful person. She reminds me of my grandmother.

  • Ash Wednesday Marks Start Of 40-Day Season Of Lent
    March 1, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    Churches across the Southland are celebrating Ash Wednesday, ushering in the 40-day season of Lent, when Christians prepare for Easter by doing penance for sins and seeking spiritual renewal through prayer, discipline and good works.

  • Ash Wednesday ushers in Lent for Southern California Christians
    March 1, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    Christians throughout the Southland will observe Ash Wednesday today, ushering in the 40-day season of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing penance for sins and seeking spiritual renewal through prayer, discipline and good works.

  • Archbishop Gomez: We Must Become Saints for Our Times
    March 1, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    God made men and women for greatness as saints, and the times now call each man and woman to embrace the call to holiness, stated the archbishop of Los Angeles.

    In his second pastoral letter, “For Greater Things You Were Born,” Archbishop José Gomez issued a clarion call for Christians to live out the Christian mission in their homes, communities, parishes, schools and ministries in the face of “a deepening secularism and ‘anti-humanistic’ spirit in American life.”

  • ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RELEASES NEW PASTORAL LETTER
    March 1, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, Press Releases  |  No Comment

    “For Greater Things You Were Born” is a Reflection on the Meaning of Life in God’s Plan and the Challenges Christians Face in Living Their …

  • L.A. Catholic Leaders Resist Trump Immigration Crackdowns
    February 28, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  No Comment

    Toward the end of a special Youth Day service at the Anaheim Convention Center last Thursday, Los Angeles Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez paused to address the several thousand Catholic celebrants in the arena.

  • Pope’s message on environment transformed into art in Orange County multimedia exhibit
    February 27, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Ree Taylor went from hopelessness to enlightenment in a matter of about 10 minutes as she stood within an interactive prayer experience for the protection of the environment, a multimedia art exhibition at the 2017 Religious Education Congress.

  • Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, California
    February 26, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    An altar server carries a cross bearing the words “cristo migrante” (Spanish for “migrant Christ”) and adorned with barbed wire that was found near the US-Mexico border, during a Spanish-language mass focusing on immigrants, exiles and refugees during the four-day 2017 Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, California, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen

  • Where the Stars Go to Pray: The Churches of Hollywood
    February 26, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    I’m as jaded a New Yorker as they come, and it takes a great deal for me to look up from my weekend bagel, coffee and newspaper. Though my out-of-town friends are thrilled whenever they spot a star pounding the pavement along with us, their pedestrianism doesn’t impress me as much. However, I am thrilled to find out a star of stage, screen or tube is a devout Catholic — or, even better, a convert to the one, true, holy, catholic and apostolic faith.

  • Worries lead to nothing
    February 25, 2017  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    “DO not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.” — (Matthew 6:34)

    It’s not easy to let go and allow God to take charge of our lives.