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  • Archbishop Gomez: ‘Jesus on the cross is the only answer’
    April 11, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    On Good Friday, April 10, 2020, Archbishop Gomez, president of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, invited US Catholics to join him in praying the Litany of the Sacred Heart. He led this national moment of prayer to seek healing and protection during the time of the coronavirus. The service was livestreamed from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Below is the full text of the archbishop’s homily.

  • ‘Our churches may be closed, but Christ is not quarantined’
    April 4, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    Future generations will look back on this as the long Lent of 2020, a time when disease and death suddenly darkened the whole earth. As we enter into Holy Week, these most sacred days of the year, Catholics here in Los Angeles and across the United States and the world are living under quarantine, our societies shut down by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

  • Love in a time without hugs
    March 24, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    Lent is always a desert journey that we make with Jesus, who fasted and was tested in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights.

  • In the time of coronavirus
    March 17, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    How the world has changed in just a few weeks. It seems hard to remember life before the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus, and right now it is hard to imagine that life might one day return to normal.

  • The virtue that confronts fear
    March 11, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    Jesus Christ never promised it would be easy to follow him. In fact, just the opposite. He said the path would be narrow, that he was sending us out like sheep among wolves.

  • The virtue of reality
    February 26, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    There are many human virtues, but there are four on which all the others depend: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

  • Lent and the recovery of virtue
    February 24, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    There is a “true you,” the ultimate version of yourself that God wants you to realize in your life.

  • Present yourself to Jesus
    February 3, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    It is wonderful to be back home! As many of you know, I’ve been in Rome this week with my brother bishops from California, Nevada, and Hawaii. We were there for our “ad limina” meetings with Pope Francis.

  • A vocation both human and divine
    January 27, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    I am writing to you this week from the Eternal City of Rome.
    I have come here, along with my brother bishops from California, Nevada, and Hawaii for our “ad limina apostolorum” visit.

  • To reverence human life
    January 20, 2020  |  The Latest  |  

    The following is adapted from Archbishop Gomez’s homily for the annual Requiem Mass for the Unborn, held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Jan. 18.