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  • Papa Francisco, Norma Pimentel y José Gómez: La «trinidad» de los niños migrantes
    May 28, 2021  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    A principio de mayo la hermana Norma Pimentel, Misionera de Jesús y Directora de Caridades Católicas del Valle del Río Grande, en Texas (Estados Unidos) envió una carta al Papa Francisco en la que le mostraba su preocupación por la cantidad de migrantes, niños viajando solos, familias desesperadas, que a diario cruzan la frontera norte de México para tratar de internarse en Estados Unidos.

  • Celebrating the Class of 2021
    May 28, 2021  |  In The News  |  

    One hundred and seventy-eight young men from the Class of 2021 graduated on Friday evening, May 28th, in a joint Baccalaureate Mass and Graduation Ceremony hosted by St. Francis High School under the lights in Jim Bonds Stadium on Friedman Field in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

  • Los Angeles clergy celebrate Mass for unaccompanied migrant children
    May 26, 2021  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Catholic clergy in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have been celebrating Masses this month for hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children housed in large temporary shelters.

  • El arzobispo Gómez dará misa en el albergue de niños migrantes en Los Ángeles
    May 25, 2021  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    Los obispos y sacerdotes de la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles recibieron un permiso especial para celebrar misas desde principios de mayo para los cientos de menores migrantes no acompañados alojados en el albergue establecido en Long Beach y en el Fairplex de Pomona.

  • Charity is fundamental to politics, Pope Francis tells youth
    May 20, 2021  |  In The News, The Latest  |  

    Charity is a necessary part of politics, Pope Francis told youth from around the world on Thursday.

    “Politics are the highest form of charity. Love is a political matter. Love is for everybody, and when love is not universal, politics fail in their intent,” Pope Francis said, through a Vatican News language interpreter, on Thursday.

  • A front seat to history
    May 20, 2021  |  In The News  |  

    You could say Cardinal Justin Rigali has had an altar seat to Catholic Church history.

    From his youth in Los Angeles to assisting at Vatican II to a diplomatic assignment in Madagascar to serving four popes and to being the shepherd of two major U.S. archdioceses, Cardinal Rigali has seen his vocation to the priesthood take him around the globe.

  • Shirley Contreras: The Maryknoll Sisters’ short but happy association with Guadalupe
    May 17, 2021  |  In The News  |  

    The Maryknoll Sisters came to Guadalupe in June of 1942 with a general assignment of teaching Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic church, and carrying out various social service activities, as well as with the community’s medical needs, and lived in a convent at 1142 Guadalupe Street.

  • Worth driving to: Church of the Holy Innocents, Long Beach
    May 14, 2021  |  In The News  |  

    Mass times Sunday, 9 a.m. (traditional Latin Low Mass), 11 a.m. (offered ad orientem, facing East, away from the people, since 2011) and 1 p.m. (Spanish, ad orientem). Weekday Mass, 8 a.m. (on the school playground). Saturday, 8 a.m. The church makes use of altar rails, so Holy Communion can be received kneeling and on the tongue.

  • Obispo de California podría ser el primer santo estadounidense de origen hispano
    May 14, 2021  |  In The News  |  

    El Obispo Alfonso Gallegos podría convertirse en el primer santo estadounidense de origen hispano. En nuestra Asignación Especial, Alejandra Ortiz presenta la primera parte “Camino a la Santidad”.

  • St. Junipero Serra, Founding Father
    May 13, 2021  |  In The News  |  

    The San Gabriel, Calif., Fire Department and Archdiocese of Los Angeles recently confirmed what many had long suspected: The fire that almost destroyed Mission San Gabriel Arcángel last year was arson. John David Corey Jr. , 57, was charged with the crime last week and faces up to 14 years in prison if convicted.