This jubilee year, make hope more than a feeling

On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis is set to open the Holy Doors at St. Peter’s Basilica to inaugurate the Jubilee Year of 2025, which Catholics throughout the world will celebrate and which will be dedicated to the theme of hope.

A new way to meet the Word of God

The saints and popes have long taught us that we cannot truly know and love Jesus unless we know how to meet him in the pages of the sacred Scriptures.

This Advent, can we be amazed at God’s love for us?

Each year in our readings at Sunday Mass we relive the life of Jesus, retracing his footsteps, walking with him and listening to his teachings as they have been handed down to us in the Gospels.

After an election, the mission remains the same

The other day I came across some words of St. John Henry Newman. They are from lectures he delivered in 1837, but they sound like he was talking today.

The Gospel challenge this election

As I write, Americans are getting ready for the national elections; early voting has already started in many states.

America and the immigrant spirit

Each year in this beautiful Mass, we celebrate the immigrant spirit of the city of Los Angeles, and the beautiful diversity of peoples that make up the family of God in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and in the Dioceses of Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego.

The ‘shortest ladder’ to heaven

Jesus said that if we want to get to heaven, we need to become like little children.

That’s not an easy idea for us to accept. We like to be in control of our lives, we like to make our own decisions, we want to shape our own future.

We are many different people with one beautiful mother

Today we rejoice as the family of God, the Church. We are many peoples and we have one mother, who is the mother of God, the mother of Jesus, and the mother of all of us who believe in his holy name.

Turning the world upside down with Jesus’ love

The national political conventions have ended, the parties have nominated their candidates for president, and the election season is entering its final weeks.

What it means to ‘Radiate Love’

One of the joys of being a priest or a bishop is celebrating weddings and the renewal of wedding vows of couples who have been married for many years.