After being told to expect the worst and say goodbye to their monastery in Southern California, a community of Benedictine monks received word that St. Andrew’s Abbey was spared any significant damage late last week. “The fire literally went around (the monastery),”
Catholics from the across Southern California and beyond joined Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles Sept. 20 for Masses in English and Spanish to celebrate the annual Day in Recognition of All Immigrants.
The Masses were livestreamed from the Cathedral of Our
San Francisco's archbishop told hundreds of Catholics gathered near City Hall Sept. 20 that "it is because of our Catholic faith that we are being put at the end of the line" by city officials in enacting what could be the country's
In imposing severe restrictions on indoor worship services because of COVID-19 protocols, the city of San Francisco "is turning a great many faithful away from their houses of prayer," said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.
"I never expected that the most basic
The Catholic bishops of California have announced a yearlong initiative to address personal and systematic racism, both in the church and wider society.
After a Sept. 9 Zoom conference with African American Catholic leaders from their state, the California bishops released a statement
The United States is going through a perfect storm — a coinciding of the coronavirus pandemic, racial tensions and social change, and the ongoing storm before the storm of November’s presidential election. But those events that the media deem to be major
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco has asked the city's mayor and health officials to ease attendance restrictions on public Masses the archbishop says are unfair.
Currently, Masses may be celebrated only outdoors in San Francisco, with only 12 attendees. According to
Some of the few Masses available for Catholics in California's Bay Area came to a halt the weekend of Aug. 22 as bishops urged parishioners to pray for one another, for firefighters, and to stay home as air quality diminished in some
California's Catholic bishops said they understand the "real and ongoing" threat of the coronavirus and concerns over returning safely to schools, but they also are worried about schoolchildren's overall health and development if they cannot return soon to classroom learning.
They urged Gov.
At a special 7:30 a.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop Gomez, Father Elewaut and Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron, Mission San Buenaventura was unveiled as the first basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the 88th in the United States.
"When