Marian pilgrim image from Mexico returns to LA after pandemic pause

The pilgrim image of Our Lady of San Juan de Los Lagos is currently traveling through the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Mission San Gabriel closes jubilee year, reveals restored church

Two years ago, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was hit with what pastor Father John Molyneux, CMF, calls “a double punch”: First, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 that kept faithful away from the sacraments — and one another — for months; then, a mysterious fire that gutted the mission church, Christianity’s oldest outpost in what is now the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Bishop Wilkerson named interim vicar for San Fernando Region

Bishop Gerald Wilkerson will serve as interim episcopal vicar for the San Fernando Pastoral Region, Archbishop José H. Gomez announced Sept. 8.

Jubilee Mass to mark the revival of a restored Mission San Gabriel

The Stations of the Cross are being hung on the wall as sound speakers are being wired in. The pews are getting bolted down as the paint is getting touched up.

After twenty years, LA’s Cathedral feels like home

For some, it’s the saint tapestries that hang on either side of the nave. For others, it’s the mausoleum or the Guadalupe tilma relic. Some say the Blessed Sacrament chapel, or the crypt of St. Vibiana.

Bishop Aclan still under doctors’ care following stroke

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has asked for continued prayers for the recovery of Auxiliary Bishop Alex D. Aclan following a recent stroke.

El convento que se convirtió en una casa para madres vulnerables y sus bebés

Un convento de Los Ángeles fue convertido en una casa para madres vulnerables que esperan dar a luz y recibió la inauguración formal con la bendición del arzobispo José H. Gómez.

LA’s Catholic prison ministry is forging new communities after the pandemic

They are known as chaplains.

Not the priests, deacons, or women religious you’ve seen administering sacraments to the incarcerated. They are the lay men and women who make up the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Office of Restorative Justice’s (ORJ) volunteer network spread across Southern California.

A ministry that’s more than words

When Gonzalo De Vivero got his start in prison ministry 45 years ago as a volunteer, he saw chaplains as people who were there to “preach and teach.”

Reflections from Rome after a consistory to remember

It was a privilege to represent the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in Rome for the consistory of cardinals and for the two days of meetings with Pope Francis.