LA pilgrims hoping to experience true ‘revival’ at Eucharistic Congress

Levi León considers the Eucharist the reason he became a Catholic in the first place.

He grew up Protestant, but as a student at Whittier College, he remarked to a Catholic classmate that the Eucharist seemed to mean a lot.

LA Archdiocese helps produce Pope Francis’ July 2024 prayer video

A new video for Pope Francis’ prayer intention for July was again produced with the help of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The team from the archdiocese also helped produce the pope’s video in May.

LA Archdiocese parish leadership assignments for 2024

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has released its “New Pastors and Administrators” assignments for 2024. Archbishop José H. Gomez has approved the following priests to be appointed pastors, effective July 1, 2024.

Angelus wins 22 Catholic Media Awards, including best newsletter

Angelus won a total of 22 Catholic Media Awards for work published in 2023, including First Place honors for its daily newsletter, Always Forward, and columnists Heather King and Greg Erlandson.

An LA Catholic school librarian’s accidental ‘dream come true’

The final weeks of MaryLou Lia’s 43 years as the librarian at St. Cyril of Jerusalem School in Encino have been winding down, and — for the most part — so is she.

How Serra High’s football star turned space pioneer faced the test of his life

Travis Leonard can do the math. Even without a slide rule from his AP calculus class.

4 archdioceses celebrate biggest ordination classes in years with joy, prayer, packed churches

The crowd filling the pews and aisles of the largest Catholic church in the United States witnessed the largest ordination class in Archdiocese of Washington in 64 years, as Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory ordained 16 new priests for the archdiocese during a June 15 Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Letters from Lourdes: Experiences from 2024 pilgrimage

The annual Order of Malta pilgrimage in May to the Lourdes shrine in France is always an emotional encounter, with the organization sponsoring dozens of malades (“sick” or “disabled people”) to travel to the place where the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.

At ordination, new LA priests called to be ‘co-workers’ in God’s plan of love

When Father Jaime Arriaga left Mexico at age 17 and returned to California where he had lived briefly, he didn’t realize that was the last time he’d see his parents for decades.

New LA priests 2024: Stephen Watson

For being the happiest place on earth, working at Disney World ultimately isn’t what made Stephen Watson happy.