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Dodgers fans, concerned Catholics fill Cathedral to pray for healing
On the day that the Los Angeles Dodgers honored a group of fake religious “sisters” and hundreds gathered outside Dodger Stadium to pray and protest, some 2,000 Catholics filled the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in response to the baseball team’s controversial decision.
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Meet some of Catholic LA’s most promising Class of 2023 graduates
Big-name scholarships, acts of Christian service, and edifying examples of faith. That’s at the heart of the young men and women from the Class of 2023 — the youngest class to experience the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic in high school. Here are a few of their stories from around the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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Archbishop Gomez to celebrate Sacred Heart Mass ahead of Dodgers event
Archbishop José H. Gomez has invited all Los Angeles Catholics to join him for a special celebration of the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on Friday, June 16.
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U.S. archbishops, cardinal call for reparation and prayer to Sacred Heart amid ‘blasphemy’
Two archbishops and a cardinal are calling on Catholics in the U.S. to pray and make reparations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as a professional sports team plans to honor a group parodying women religious.
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Ten men ordained as permanent deacons in 2023
Dan White is no stranger to the inside of a church, having designed many of them in his career as an architect and serving in several of them as an emcee, acolyte, and sacristan for close to 30 years.
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Sisters who lay down their lives
In a saga that has been well documented in recent weeks, the Los Angeles Dodgers recently issued an invitation, retracted it, then, under mob pressure, issued a groveling apology and implored a group of “drag nuns” who call themselves, all in good fun, of course, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to participate in an upcoming Pride Night celebration at Dodger Stadium.
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Four years after arriving to LA, Venezuelan refugee graduates as valedictorian
When Mary Suarez arrived as a freshman to Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School in the fall of 2019, she had a steeper hill to climb than most of her classmates.
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LA welcomes eight new ‘living instruments of Christ’ at priest ordination Mass
Sitting in a shady corner of the plaza of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Luisa Galan fought back tears watching her son, Cesar, give first blessings from his wheelchair just moments after his ordination to the priesthood.
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Pope names two new auxiliary bishops for San Diego
Pope Francis has appointed Father Michael Pham, vicar general of the Diocese of San Diego, and Father Felipe Pulido, vicar for clergy and director of vocations for the Diocese of Yakima, Washington, as auxiliary bishops of San Diego.
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New LA priests 2023: Emmanuel Sanchez
On June 3, Archbishop José H. Gomez will ordain eight new priests for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.