Treasure in the fields: Meet this year’s ‘bumper crop’ of new transitional deacons

If fostering vocations to the priesthood can be compared to the work of planting, growing, and harvesting, then this class is a bumper crop.

New LA Archdiocese parish leadership assignments for 2023

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has released its “New Pastors and Administrators” assignments for 2023. Archbishop José H. Gomez has approved the following priests to be appointed pastors, effective July 1, 2023.

Our Lady of Refuge Church in Long Beach

Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated a special Mass with students and parishioners at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Long Beach marking the parish’s 75th anniversary — and Mother’s Day — on May 14. Our Lady of Refuge was founded in 1948, one of the first six parishes established in the Long Beach area after World War II. (Victor Alemán)

Mental health tops high-schoolers’ concerns at LA Scholas event

Seventeen-year-old Denise Salas choked back the emotion as she talked about her suicide attempt and the hospitalization that followed.

New ‘Garden of Healing’ in Ventura offers silent space for those hurt by abuse

The first thing you hear is the sound of water.

Water symbolizing purification. Prayer. Peace.

Late LA Mayor Riordan remembered for ‘heartfelt impatience’ at memorial Mass

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan was remembered as a generous soul who “got things done” for the city he loved at a memorial Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels April 28.

Late LA Mayor Riordan’s support for Catholic education had deep roots

Six years before Richard Riordan was elected by an overwhelming margin as mayor of Los Angeles, the first Catholic to serve as the city’s mayor in the modern era, he was a founding trustee and the first president of the Catholic Education Foundation of Los Angeles (CEF).

Richard Riordan, modern LA’s first Catholic mayor, dies at 92

Richard Riordan, the first Catholic to serve as Mayor of Los Angeles in the modern era, died at the age of 92 on Wednesday, April 19, his family announced.

Wilmington parishes bring washing of the feet event to the streets

Eucharistic processions. Marian processions. Stations of the Cross. All involve traditional devotions that seek to bring faith beyond the church’s walls and into the public.

LA LITURGIA DE LA PASIÓN Y MUERTE DE NUESTRO SEÑOR EL VIERNES SANTO

Durante la liturgia solemne, se proclamó la pasión del Señor del Evangelio de Juan y se dedicó una oración especial a los catecúmenos o hermanos y hermanas que fueron bautizados y acogidos en la Iglesia en la Vigilia Pascual.
Como en años anteriores, los fieles tuvieron la oportunidad de venerar la Santa Cruz.