The ‘Good Tidings’ Of Angelus

For more than 120 years, the family of God here in Los Angeles has been served by a fine Catholic newspaper, The Tidings.

DECLARACIÓN DE MONSEÑOR JOSÉ H. GOMEZ, ARZOBISPO DE LOS ÁNGELES SOBRE LA DECISIÓN DE LA SUPREMA CORTE DE EE.UU.

El constante fracaso de nuestra nación para tratar la crisis de inmigración es una tragedia humanitaria.

The mission of Catholic education — to make saints!

I want to offer three reflections as you make this new beginning in your journey of life. I want to talk to you tonight about saints, prayer and love.

After the latest mass shooting

In the face of the mass murders in Orlando, Florida, this weekend, it is difficult to write.

It is complicated and frustrating and it feels like we have already been through this before. So many mass shootings, and this is another one that is apparently an act of terror carried out in the name of a radical religious ideology. When I heard the news, I thought about the killings in San Bernardino, just last December.

Coming to the end of life in California

On June 9, California becomes the fifth state in the nation to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medications for patients who ask for them.

Fundamental injustices in our society

Editor’s note: This week Archbishop Gomez continues his reflections on the duties and demands of Catholic social teaching. This column is adapted from his recent foreword to the 4th edition of “Catholics in the Public Square,” by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix.

The world as it should be

Catholic social teaching gives us a vision of the world as it could be and as it should be. The world as God created it to be.

‘Telling our beads’ and what our beads tell

The rosary is a part of the rhythm of my daily life. It has been that way for a long time now.

My parents taught me to pray the rosary when I was a child. They always taught my sisters and I that we had a mother in heaven who loves us — just as we had a mother on earth who loves us.

The ‘realism’ of the Lord’s Prayer

We have been reflecting on the words of the Lord’s Prayer during these weeks of Easter.