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Listen to Archbishop Gomez: Social justice begins with recognizing our common humanity.
Archbishop José Gomez is the head of the nation’s largest archdiocese. He also happens to be an immigrant, a minority and the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. When he speaks on the issue of racism and social injustice, it is worth paying attention.
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Comienzan Los Primeros Festejos En Honor De La Virgen De Guadalupe
A un mes de la celebración en honor a la Virgen de Guadalupe, los católicos ya están de fiesta en el área de San Fernando. Serenatas y Mañanitas inician el peregrinaje para pedirle a la santa los ansiados milagros y agradecerle por su protección.
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In praise of Archbishop Gómez’s anti-racism
Responding to the murder of 22 Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, Archbishop José Gómez, who was born in Mexico, reflected on his very personal connection to the victims.
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Gomez: Church must proclaim Christ ‘boldly’ in response to ‘woke’ movements
The Catholic Church must proclaim Jesus Christ “boldly” and “creatively” in the face of new secular movements that promote “social justice,” “wokeness” and “intersectionality,” among other beliefs, as the answer to all of society’s ills, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Nov. 4.
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Free Holiday Pageant LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE DIOS INANTZIN Returns To In Person Performance
Latino Theater Company returns to in-person performance this December with La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, the company’s signature holiday pageant that has been a Los Angeles holiday tradition since 2002.
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Catholic University Allows Student Group’s Planned Parenthood Fundraiser
Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Nov. 5 he was “deeply disappointed” by Loyola Marymount University’s decision to allow a student group’s fundraiser for Planned Parenthood to go forward later the same day despite thousands of protests against the event.
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Saving Us from the Gospel of the Woke
Love is love.” “Science is science.” Homes and offices in Washington, D.C., must display every politically correct lawn sign there is. Around the corner from St. Matthew’s Cathedral, a full-size mural painted on a building declares that not only do “Black Lives Matter,” but “Black Trans Lives Matter.” Who decides these things? According to the Good Book, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, to name a few, all lives matter. So why are we identifying some of the vulnerable for protection but not others? Could it be because we are trying to find meaning? Could it be because we need religion, and these lawn signs and murals give a sense of belonging? And could it be that “Love is love” and “Science is science” is pure ideology that doesn’t mean what it purports to?
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The Synod On Synodality
SOME of you must have heard of Pope Francis’ call for a “synod on synodality.” And you might have asked what it’s all about.
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State schools chief apologizes to private, parochial school leaders for mishandling federal Covid aid
In a hastily scheduled webinar this week, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond apologized profusely to hundreds of leaders of private schools serving low-income families for delays in distributing tens of millions of dollars in federal Covid aid.
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Archbishop Gomez addresses rise of ‘wokeness’, social movements in US
On Thursday, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles discussed the rise of new secular ideologies and movements for social change in the United States during a virtual address to the Congress of Catholics and Public Life in Madrid.