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  • Assisted suicide ‘crosses the line,’ says California bishop
    June 10, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    LOS ANGELES – With California now allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medications for terminally ill patients who ask for them, “we are crossing a line,” said the archbishop of Los Angeles.

  • ‘Killing Is Not Caring’: California’s Assisted Suicide Law Goes into Effect
    June 9, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Today, June 9, the state of California’s assisted suicide legislation has gone into effect, giving approximately 12 percent of the population of the United States the right to request life-ending medication when in the final phase of a terminal illness. Matt Whitaker, state director of the national advocacy group Compassion and Choices, called it a “monumental day for Californians suffering from terminal diseases. Senator Bill Monning, a co-sponsor of the California bill, likewise recently called the law a “historic achievement,” a blessing that will bring relief to a “limited universe of people.”

  • Bishop Conaty-Loretto High School honors graduating class
    June 9, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Bishop Conaty-Loretto High School recently held its 92nd commencement on campus. Judge Carol D. Codrington, associate justice with the California Court of Appeal, 4th District, was the keynote speaker.

  • Cathedral Chapel school congratulates graduates
    June 9, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Cathedral Chapel School is celebrating its graduating class of 8th graders on Friday, June 10 with a special mass at 9:30 a.m. at Cathedral Chapel of St. Vibiana Church at 923 S. La Brea Ave., and a graduation ceremony at 7 p.m. in the Cathedral Chapel School auditorium, 755 S. Cochran Ave.

  • Who May Die? California Patients and Doctors Wrestle With Assisted Suicide
    June 9, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    LOS ANGELES — Beginning Thursday, California will be the fourth state in the country to put in effect a law allowing assisted suicide for the terminally ill, what has come to be known as aid in dying. Lawmakers here approved the legislation last year, after Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old schoolteacher who had brain cancer, received international attention for her decision to move to Oregon, where terminally ill patients have been allowed to take drugs to die since 1997.

  • Historia de cada hombre ordenado sacerdote en Los Ángeles
    June 8, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Un mexicano que experimentó el drama de la migración en Estados Unidos, un español agnóstico que sintió el llamado de Cristo cuando vio por televisión el funeral del Papa Juan Pablo II y un profesor de música holandés que confirmó su vocación en la JMJ de Colonia integran el grupo de nueve sacerdotes ordenados por el Arzobispo de Los Ángeles, Mons. José Gómez, el sábado pasado.

  • Declaración de Mons. José Gómez sobre legalización el suicidio asistido en California
    June 8, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Mañana, California se convertirá en el quinto estado del país en permitir a los médicos recetar medicamentos letales a los pacientes que los soliciten.

  • Abp. Gomez on legalization of assisted suicide in California: “This is the beginning of tyranny.”
    June 8, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    Here is the full statement from Most Reverend José H. Gomez Archbishop of Los Angeles on Legalization of Assisted Suicide in California, released a short time ago:

  • LA archdiocese prays novena as assisted suicide law looms
    June 8, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    On June 1, Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell celebrated Mass at Santa Teresita, a home for seniors in need of assisted living and nursing services. The Mass marked the beginning of a call to nine days of prayer and fasting for the elderly, disabled and terminally ill.

  • Californians Have a Prayer as Assisted Suicide Becomes Law
    June 7, 2016  |  In The News  |  

    I noticed something beautiful in my inbox in recent days: People praying. While some statements and sentiments about prayer in the face of violence and death have gotten some media criticism of late, there are people among us who put a lot of faith in prayer. And they are often the people running the maternity homes and the soup kitchens and the hospices and helping immigrants become part of the community.