The Marian Heart of America: Our Lady of Guadalupe and our “Post-Christian” Society

My dear friends,

I am just coming back from Mexico. I had the blessing a few weeks ago to lead our first pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Statement on Introduction of “Dream Act of 2017” (S. 1615)

I welcome this new bipartisan legislation and I am grateful to Senator Graham and Senator Durbin for their leadership.

Lessons From the Peripheries: The Joy of the Gospel and our Continental Mission

Dear friends,

Thank you for your warm welcome. It is so good that we are here!

The Joy of the Gospel in America

As I write, I am preparing to leave for Orlando, Florida, to attend a historic gathering — “Convocation of Catholic Leaders,” organized by my brothers in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

Summer of love and the seasons of God

In different places throughout the city of Los Angeles these days, you can see festive banners along the streets remembering the Monterey Pop Festival of June 1967.

In the Body of Christ, we meet as friends

Today we are celebrating the immigrant spirit that makes America great.

America has always been a beautiful collection of many immigrant peoples. And the immigrant spirit is still renewing the soul of America — even though we are going through some hard times and struggles in recent years.

Praying for immigrants

On Sunday, June 18, we will celebrate our annual Mass in Recognition of All Immigrants at our Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Renewing the face of the earth

At the dawn of creation, the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the earth’s deep waters.

I was thinking about this image from the Book of Genesis on June 4, as I was praying and preparing to celebrate Pentecost.

The Christian is one who has a vocation

On June 3, I will ordain seven fine men to the priesthood and the following week I will ordain 19 fine men to be permanent deacons.

The rosary is the prayer for our times

Recently, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about brain research.

Researchers are finding that people who use a “personal mantra” — mentally repeating over and over a positive word or phrase that reinforces their values — tend to be calmer, feel more in control and are less likely to get stressed out.