Love takes center stage at first OneLife LA after the fall of Roe v. Wade

OneLife LA is an important tradition for the Mercado family.

Every year they make the 60-mile trip from San Bernardino County to the pro-life event sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to celebrate their faith — and their son. As the festivities were in full swing, 15-year-old Gabe wrapped his arms around his dad’s shoulders

Monterey Park shooting a ‘gut punch’ for LA’s Chinese Catholics

Local Chinese Catholics celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year at Chinatown’s Catholic parish also prayed for the victims of Saturday night’s mass shooting in Monterey Park.

Sisters train lay Catholics for ministry to LA’s sick and dying

Jaime Diaz didn’t know if he would live or die.

He was diagnosed with a brain tumor that needed to be surgically removed. As Diaz lay in his hospital bed, he prayed to St. Maria Soledad, a Spanish sister whose mission was to care for the sick and dying.

Archbishop calls for ‘new awakening of love’ at first post-Roe Requiem Mass

Some 3,000 people packed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Saturday evening to pray for children lost to abortion at the annual Requiem Mass for the Unborn, the first since the overturning of Roe v. Wade last summer.

‘Just find the truth’: How ex-FBI agents help the LA Archdiocese vet accusations

For 25 years, Marty Gallagher tracked down kidnappers, investigated government fraud and foreign counterintelligence, and in one case even helped send a young military contractor to prison for espionage.

Remembering ‘Father Terry,’ an apostle for the addicted

When I came into the Church 26 years ago, I wasn’t friends with a single practicing Catholic, much less a Catholic who might understand that I’d been led to Christ through my recovery from alcoholism.

LA Catholics pay tribute to Pope Benedict’s ‘gentle soul’

Hours after Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral in Rome, Los Angeles-area Catholics gathered to pray for the pontiff emeritus at a memorial Mass celebrated by Archbishop José H. Gomez.

‘Jesus, is that you?’ Inside LA Men’s Central Jail on Christmas

After the first group of 33 inmates filed into the chapel of LA Men’s Central Jail the morning of Dec. 25 came the first Christmas surprise: due to an unspecified “situation” at the jail that morning, they’d be the only ones at Mass with Archbishop José H. Gomez this year.

At interreligious Cathedral vigil, homeless dead remembered by their names

Delia Johnson heard from her family contacts that Major Slaughter, the brother of her former husband, had died recently after a long struggle experiencing homelessness. Johnson knew a bit about the situation of the man best known by as “Cowboy.” But she had long since lost touch with him.

Bishop Aclan making ‘very positive’ progress in recovery from stroke

Auxiliary Bishop Alex Aclan is making “very positive and continuing progress” in his recovery since suffering a stroke four months ago, his family said.