Interfaith prayer service in L.A. seeks to reassure immigrants after Trump’s presidential election

At the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, along with Rabbi Sharon Brous; Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council; and the Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard participate in an interfaith prayer service seeking to reassure immigrants after the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. archbishop, other religious leaders urge unity, reassure immigrants after Trump’s election

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez led an interfaith prayer service Thursday evening in which he stressed the importance of unity and reassured immigrants in the country illegally that the church would continue supporting them after the election of Donald Trump.

Archbishop Gomez: Want to make America great? Be saints

With recent polls showing an increasingly tight presidential race, it’s still unpredictable as to who will come out next week as the next president of the United States.

Archbishop Gomez: Christian doctors face increasing threats

Faithful Catholics need to be aware of the ever-increasing serious threats to Christians living their faith in the field of medicine, warned Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles.

California bishops urge voters to reject the death penalty

The California Catholic bishops are urging voters to support a November ballot initiative that would outlaw the death penalty.

Bishops Urge Rejection of Death Penalty in California, New Mexico

The California Catholic bishops are urging voters to support a November ballot initiative that would outlaw the death penalty.

‘…the death penalty can only function as … killing’- Archbishop calls California to vote for Prop 62

“It is time for us to end the death penalty – not only in California but throughout the United States and throughout the world,” Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said Sept. 21.

“In a culture of death, I believe mercy alone can be the only credible witness to the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person.”

Los Angeles archbishop sees ‘Latino moment’ in America

Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, technically speaking, is just one among more than 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world, and, in the U.S., the head of just one of 32 territorial archdioceses, 145 dioceses, an Archdiocese for the Military Services, a Personal Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans, two archieparchies, sixteen eparchies, and one apostolic exarchate.

Archbishop Gomez: It’s time to end the death penalty

Californians should vote for Proposition 62, a ballot measure to end the death penalty, the Archbishop of Los Angeles has said in a reflection on justice, Catholic teaching and American society.