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  • A priest and his love for Syrian refugees
    September 27, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    While many priests grapple with budgetary concerns and a desire to fill pews, Father Bedrossian is wondering where he’s going to find the resources to house the next Syrian refugee who shows up on the church steps.

  • Virgen de Guadalupe inicia hoy peregrinaje en L.A
    September 27, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    La comunidad católica de Los Ángeles se prepara para la visita de La Peregrina, una reproducción digital exacta de la imagen original de la Virgen de Guadalupe que reposa en la Basílica de la Ciudad de México.

  • Join Us for Mass to Celebrate St. Elizabeth of the Trinity’s Canonization
    September 26, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Calling all Carmelites!

    I am overjoyed to announce that the Avila Foundation, along with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Carmelites of the Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, will host a special Mass of Thanksgiving in celebration of the life and canonization of Elizabeth of the Trinity on November 6 in Alhambra, California.

  • ‘…the death penalty can only function as … killing’- Archbishop calls California to vote for Prop 62
    September 25, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    “It is time for us to end the death penalty – not only in California but throughout the United States and throughout the world,” Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said Sept. 21.

    “In a culture of death, I believe mercy alone can be the only credible witness to the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person.”

  • Los Angeles archbishop sees ‘Latino moment’ in America
    September 25, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, technically speaking, is just one among more than 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world, and, in the U.S., the head of just one of 32 territorial archdioceses, 145 dioceses, an Archdiocese for the Military Services, a Personal Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans, two archieparchies, sixteen eparchies, and one apostolic exarchate.

  • Archbishop Gomez: It’s time to end the death penalty
    September 24, 2016  |  Archbishop Gomez, In The News  |  

    Californians should vote for Proposition 62, a ballot measure to end the death penalty, the Archbishop of Los Angeles has said in a reflection on justice, Catholic teaching and American society.

  • Bicolandia celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Penafrancia
    September 21, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    It was a day on the brink of autumn that came with ribbons of mist under an impossibly blue sky.  Clear and temperate burnished it as a perfect day to celebrate the 42nd Penafrancia Eucharistic celebration in honor of Our Lady of Penafrancia at the Lincoln Park lake. The great gathering unleashed a kind of controlled religious anarchy (3,000,000 have people gathered to pay homage in the Philippines), at a time of national crisis.

  • Catholics in the Public Square – Revised 4th Edition
    September 19, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Catholic social teaching gives us a vision of the world as it could be and as it should be. The world as God created it to be.The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most radical doctrine in the history of ideas. If the world believed what Jesus proclaimed — that God is our Father and we are all brothers and sisters created in His image with God-given dignity and a transcendent destiny — every society could be transformed overnight.

  • St. Monica Academy celebrates 15 years of classical education
    September 18, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    St. Monica Academy celebrates its 15th Anniversary this year. The landmark was celebrated with the school’s largest ever Auction in April and first Graduation on the new Montrose campus in June. Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez celebrated the Baccalaureate Mass and gave the commencement address in which he urged the graduates to pray unceasingly and become saints.

  • ‘Abortion Is Catholic Social Justice’ Campaign Draws Wide Catholic Rebuke (3788)
    September 14, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    A full-page ad blitz with the words “Public funding of abortion is a Catholic social-justice value” has made a splash in major newspapers across the United States.