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  • Finding God in the wildfires
    January 15, 2025  |  The Latest  |  

    My heart is heavy for all of you who are suffering because of the wildfires that are still burning in the mountains and along the sea. These days are a trial for our great city and for the family of God here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

  • ‘Called to be instruments’ in the California wildfires
    January 9, 2025  |  The Latest  |  

    My brothers and sisters,

    As always when we celebrate Mass we gather with gratitude to God but today we especially gather with heavy hearts.

  • Our God is a God of miracles
    December 31, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    Our God is a God of miracles

  • This jubilee year, make hope more than a feeling
    December 18, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    December 4, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    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?
    November 27, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    November 6, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    October 23, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

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

  • America and the immigrant spirit
    October 7, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    September 25, 2024  |  The Latest  |  

    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.