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  • Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, California
    February 26, 2017  |  In The News  |  

    An altar server carries a cross bearing the words “cristo migrante” (Spanish for “migrant Christ”) and adorned with barbed wire that was found near the US-Mexico border, during a Spanish-language mass focusing on immigrants, exiles and refugees during the four-day 2017 Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, California, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen

  • Where the Stars Go to Pray: The Churches of Hollywood
    February 26, 2017  |  In The News  |  

    I’m as jaded a New Yorker as they come, and it takes a great deal for me to look up from my weekend bagel, coffee and newspaper. Though my out-of-town friends are thrilled whenever they spot a star pounding the pavement along with us, their pedestrianism doesn’t impress me as much. However, I am thrilled to find out a star of stage, screen or tube is a devout Catholic — or, even better, a convert to the one, true, holy, catholic and apostolic faith.

  • Worries lead to nothing
    February 25, 2017  |  In The News  |  

    “DO not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.” — (Matthew 6:34)

    It’s not easy to let go and allow God to take charge of our lives.

  • Trump needs to stop terrifying immigrant families and consider the real cost of mass deportations
    February 25, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    Jersey Vargas, 13, was just starting a long night of homework Wednesday when I asked how school was going.

    “Everything’s fine. Straight A’s,” said the Panorama City seventh-grader, who attends a magnet school and wants to go to Harvard or Yale one day. “But math is getting more difficult.”

  • ¿Cómo se puede prevenir la tragedia del tráfico de menores?
    February 24, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    En algunos estados de la Unión Americana se han establecido lineamientos para ayudar a restaurar la tragedia provocada en las niñas y los niños que han sido usados en el tráfico sexual, mientras que los medios católicos de ese país –como ha sido recientemente *Our Sunday Visitor*—van mucho más allá y centran su atención en la prevención.

  • Catholics’ largest annual meeting comes to Anaheim to ’embrace trust’
    February 22, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    The four-day 2017 Religious Education Congress — billed by organizers as the nation’s largest annual gathering of Catholics — will begin Thursday at the Anaheim Convention Center.

  • How rice bowls can build a ‘culture of encounter’ this Lent
    February 22, 2017  |  In The News  |  

    Through its annual rice bowl initiative, Catholic Relief Services has announced it will be promoting a “culture of encounter” in its Lenten operation.

    “At a time when there is so much conflict in the world, this Lenten program gives people of all ages a way to respond to human suffering with compassion and action,” Joan Rosenhauer, executive vice president of U.S. operations for Catholic Relief Services, stated.

  • CELEBRAN LA BELLEZA Y DIGNIDAD DE CADA VIDA HUMANA EN ONELIFE LA
    February 22, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    El sábado 21 de enero fue un día espléndido y radiante. En Exposition Park de Los Ángeles, miles de católicos oraron juntos para que la humanidad “Elija el Amor” y celebraron la belleza de la dignidad de cada vida humana.

  • 40,000 Catholic educators gathering in Anaheim
    February 22, 2017  |  In The News  |  

    The event, in its 61st year, is organized by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and is geared specifically for teachers of the faith, said Father Chris Bazyouros, the archdiocese’s director of the Office of Religious Education.

  • LAPD Valley chief urges calm amid deportation fears
    February 20, 2017  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Robert Green said he and his team are working to “promote calm” amid concerns in the San Fernando Valley over the possibility of mass deportations of immigrants.