Category: Archbishop Gomez

At Mass, outgoing USCCB president encourages self-examination, renewal

by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Archbishop Gomez, Baltimore, Featured, News, self-examination, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB | 0 |

In a Mass Nov. 14 to mark the opening of the 2022 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles called on his brother bishops to take time for self-examination and to renew their vocation and ministry.

Housing for homeless pregnant women called ‘beautiful work of compassion’

by bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Archbishop Gomez, Harvest Home, Housing for homeless, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Archdiocese, News, Pico Home, St. Mary Magdalen Convent for Sisters of the Holy Faith, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez Aug. 19 described a new residence in the city for homeless pregnant women and their children as a “beautiful work of compassion and care for our most vulnerable neighbors.”

New Rochester, Minn., bishop’s heart is ‘overwhelmed with joy, gratitude’

by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2022 | Archbishop Gomez, Bishop Robert Barron, Featured, News, U.S. & World News, Word on Fire Catholic Ministries | 0 |

After nearly seven years serving as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, a new chapter in Bishop Robert E. Barron’s ministry as one of the Catholic Church’s most recognizable evangelists has begun halfway across the country.

Archbishops’ friendly Super Bowl wager raises $22,000 for Catholic schools

by bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Archbishop Gomez, Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archbishop Schnurr, Bishops Big Game challenge, Catholic Education Foundation, Cincinnati Bengals, Featured, Los Angeles Rams, News, SoFi Stadium, Super Bowl, Super Bowl LVI, U.S. & World News | 0 |

The Los Angeles Rams may have won Super Bowl LVI over the Cincinnati Bengals, but students in Catholic schools in both archdioceses are winners as well.

Gomez: Church must proclaim Christ ‘boldly’ in response to ‘woke’ movements

by bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | "woke" culture, Archbishop Gomez, News, Proclaim Jesus Christ, U.S. & World News, wokeness | 0 |

The Catholic Church must proclaim Jesus Christ “boldly” and “creatively” in the face of new secular movements that promote “social justice,” “wokeness” and “intersectionality,” among other beliefs, as the answer to all of society’s ills, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Nov. 4.

Catholic university allows student group’s Planned Parenthood fundraiser

by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2021 | Archbishop Gomez, Featured, Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, Loyola Marymount University, News, Planned Parenthood, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Nov. 5 he was “deeply disappointed” by Loyola Marymount University’s decision to allow a student group’s fundraiser for Planned Parenthood to go forward later the same day despite thousands of protests against the event.

U.S. Catholics asked to pray for bishops as Communion document is drafted

by bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | Archbishop Gomez, Bishop Rhoades, Communion document, Eucharist, News, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB | 0 |

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked the nation’s Catholics to pray for him and his brother bishops “as we continue our dialogues and reflections” in the process of drafting a document on the “meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church.”

Archbishop Di Noia says his letter to Archbishop Gomez was routine

by bcadmin | Jun 17, 2021 | Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, Archbishop Gomez, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, News, Receipt of communication, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said a letter he sent in late May to the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference was simply “a letter of acknowledgment” of the receipt of communication from him.

In virtual summer assembly, USCCB’s Archbishop Gomez calls for unity

by bcadmin | Jun 16, 2021 | Archbishop Gomez, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Pentecost homily, Plenary assembly, Spring plenary assembly, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic bishop, USCCB | 0 |

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops urged unity in an address June 16, the first day of the prelates’ three-day spring plenary assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

God is always with us, archbishop tells unaccompanied immigrant minors

by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Archbishop Gomez, Mother of God, News, Trinity Sunday, U.S. & World News, Unaccompanied immigrant minors, Virgin Mary | 0 |

“God is always with us, in good and beautiful times and in difficult times, when we are happy or when we have a sadness,” Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles told unaccompanied immigrant minors at a Mass May 30.

USCCB president, committee chair decry anti-Semitic attacks in U.S.

by bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Semitic attacks, Anti-semitism, Archbishop Gomez, News, Picks, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the prelate who chairs the USCCB’s Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs decried a recent rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the United States as “contrary to who we are called to be as the people of God.”

USCCB president explains how planned discussion on Eucharist was set

by bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Archbishop Gomez, Communion, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, News, Reception of Communion, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |

After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops’ upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president explained in a memo the procedure followed in bringing the question to a vote during the June 16-18 virtual meeting.