• Vatican appoints new San Diego bishop
    March 4, 2015  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    This morning, Pope Francis named Bishop Robert McElroy, Auxiliary of San Francisco, to be the new Bishop of San Diego, which is one of the six dioceses that make up the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles.

    On behalf of all the faithful here in the Province and in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, we welcome Bishop McElroy to Southern California.

  • The parish is the heart of the new evangelization
    March 4, 2015  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    As I continue to visit parishes around this great archdiocese, I see every day that the life of faith is lived in the heart of the parish.

    We turn to our parishes for the Eucharist and the sacraments. We turn to our parishes to hear the Word of God, and to bring us together to serve to the poor and others in our community.

  • Declaración sobre el nombramiento del nuevo Obispo de San Diego
    March 3, 2015  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    Declaración sobre el nombramiento del nuevo Obispo de San Diego   Monseñor José H. Gomez Arzobispo de Los Ángeles  3 de marzo de 2015   …

  • Statement on the Naming of a New Bishop for San Diego
    March 3, 2015  |  Press Releases  |  No Comment

    Statement on the Naming of a New Bishop for San Diego   Most Reverend José H. Gomez Archbishop of Los Angeles  March 3, 2015   …

  • Knights honor 10th grader for religious liberty essay
    February 27, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Tenth-grade Long Beach student, Loyalty Traster-Lee, won First Place in the Knights of Columbus Essay contest themed, “The Importance of Religious Freedom.”

    This is the first time the Knights of Columbus Council 9594 of St. Anne’s in Seal Beach participated in the annual contest. The Order of Knights of Columbus encourages all councils and assemblies to sponsor the Knights of Columbus Essay Contest each year for Catholic students in public, parochial and private schools in 8th-12th grades.

  • ‘Those who are to be chosen in Christ’
    February 27, 2015  |  Around the ADLA  |  No Comment

    Every year, usually on the First Sunday of Lent, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles celebrates the Rite of Election at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. It is called election because the Church’s acceptance is founded on the election by God, in whose name the Church acts. In this celebration, the godparents of the catechumens are called upon to give testimony that their godchild has faithfully responded to God’s word and has begun to live their life in the spirit of the Gospel. After testimony is given by the godparents and the assembly affirms their readiness, the archbishop declares the Act of Election and the assembly offers special intercessions. The ceremony then closes with a special prayer over the elect.

  • In our time
    February 25, 2015  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    We are living in times of rising religious extremism and violence.

    As I write, I’ve just read the sad news that 90 Christians have been kidnapped from two villages in Syria. Of course we were all shocked earlier this month by the news that 21 Coptic Christians were executed in Syria — killed, as Pope Francis said, “for the mere fact of being Christians.”

  • Parroquias listas para asistir a inmigrantes con DACA y DAPA
    February 24, 2015  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    El obispo auxiliar de Los Ángeles, Alejandro Salazar dijo que la Iglesia Católica está preparada y dispuesta para asistir a los inmigrantes indocumentados más necesitados en el llenado de solicitudes para los programas de la acción diferida DACA y DAPA.

  • Catholic culture and the new evangelization
    February 19, 2015  |  The Latest  |  No Comment

    We all know that Catholicism is not an ideology or a philosophy or a set of rules.

    Catholicism creates a culture. Because Catholicism is a way of living born from the encounter with a divine person, Jesus of Nazareth, who is the Word of God and the Son of God humbling himself to come among us in human form.

  • Lent Begins With Ash Wednesday
    February 19, 2015  |  In The News  |  No Comment

    Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent, a 40-day period for penance leading up to Easter Sunday.