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  • The mission of Catholic education — to make saints!
    June 21, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    June 15, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    June 8, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    June 1, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    May 25, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    May 18, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    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
    May 11, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

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

  • Our daily bread
    May 5, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    May is Mary’s Month. It is a new moment in the springtime of the year when we reflect on the love that our Blessed Mother showed to us in bringing Jesus into the world.

  • Court rules against real estate mogul who pressured nuns with ‘bad deal’
    May 3, 2016  |  The Latest, Waverly  |  

    L.A. County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick ruled April 13 that the contested sale of the former convent of the Immaculate Heart of Mary religious sisters to urban developer Dana Hollister is invalid. Bowick entered an order May 2 affirming the sisters as the rightful owner of the Waverly Drive property and ordering Hollister to immediately vacate the premises.

  • Praying for holiness and the kingdom
    April 27, 2016  |  The Latest  |  

    The Church’s saints have always recognized that the Lord’s Prayer is a summary of his whole Gospel. And each word and phrase in the prayer is a rich source for us to contemplate and reflect on.