LA seminarians squeak out win against priests at vocations game

When Archbishop José H. Gomez and Auxiliary Bishop Matt Elshoff both stood and extended their hands above their heads with some 800 people packed into the gym of Cathedral High School, it might have looked like they were administering an enthusiastic blessing.

New Bishop Nunes: Faith came from meeting of cultures thousands of miles away

It was like a secret club, a unique world where the only way to gain admittance was to be from an area surrounding a small estuary near China.

New Bishop Szkredka: Polish, ‘JP2’ influence is strong

Poland is practically on the other side of the world from California.

But for a few moments, lying face-down on the floor during his episcopal Ordination Mass Sept. 26, Bishop Slawomir’s Szkredka’s homeland suddenly felt a lot closer as the names of a few fellow countrymen rang out inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

New Bishop Szkredka: A biblical scholar almost by accident

When Father Slawomir Szkredka was first approached 15 years ago about going to graduate school in Rome to study Scripture, he wasn’t exactly excited.

New Bishop Elshoff: Family’s roots felt all over LA

Cal Elshoff made a promise to his wife, Irene, in the summer of 1965.

Accepting a transfer as an architect with U.S. Gypsum and moving the family from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Southern California meant he would find a good Catholic parish that could take all five of their children into its school on Day One.

New Bishop Elshoff: A new look, but still just ‘Father Matt’

By all appearances, newly ordained Auxiliary Bishop Matthew Elshoff, OFM Cap., is getting a second chance at making a first impression.

New Bishop Bahhuth: From businessman to working now for God

A glimpse of heaven.

That’s how Bishop Albert Bahhuth described the experience of being elevated, along with three other Los Angeles priests, to new auxiliary bishop at his Ordination Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Sept. 26.

New Bishop Bahhuth: How he wins over parishioners

At every stop he’s made throughout the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — whether it was volunteering at St. John Vianney Church in Hacienda Heights before he became a priest, or parish assignments at Holy Family Church in Glendale, St. Finbar Church in Burbank, or St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church in Santa Clarita — there’s something special about Bishop Albert Bahhuth that has won over parishioners.

What each new bishop’s coat of arms, episcopal mottos say about them

In his homily at their Sept. 26 episcopal ordination Mass, Archbishop José H. Gomez told the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ four newest auxiliary bishops that their mission as successors to Jesus’ first apostles of leading men and women to eternal salvation was an “urgent” one.

Family, Santa Clarita parishioners remember slain sheriff’s ‘ultimate sacrifice

There are few places where the pain and sadness that followed the Sept. 16 murder of Deputy Sheriff Ryan Clinkunbroomer were felt harder than at St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church in Santa Clarita.