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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Scott Hahn |Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay
What happened in the 40 days between Easter Sunday and Ascension Thursday? It’s a reasonable question to ask about an important history in the life of the early Church. Yet Scripture is curiously vague. The Gospels give us vivid accounts of Jesus’ resurrection, and the Acts of the Apostles later gives us a spectacular account of the first Christian Pentecost.
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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay |David Agren
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ celebratory Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels offered for the election of new Pope Leo XIV on May 9 had a distinct Peruvian flavor. Not only did Archbishop José H.
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3 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Jonah McKeown |Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released a new 10th anniversary preface to a major document on the Church’s response to pornography, offering fresh recommendations for parents, clergy, educators, and civil leaders on combatting porn’s influence in an age of increased social isolation and the rise of artificial intelligence.
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5 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Maria Wiering |Justin Mclellan |Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros
Standing on loggia of St. Peter's basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 as he introduced himself to the world as the 266th successor to St. Peter -- the first American to hold that role. His first words: "Peace be with you!"Pope Leo, 69, formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, is the first pope from the United States.
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6 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros |Kimmy Chacon
Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the Catholic Church's "missionary outreach is most desperately needed," Pope Leo XIV said in his first homily as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
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6 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros |Kimmy Chacon |Justin Mclellan
When Laura Gonzalez watched as newly elected Pope Leo XIV spoke to the crowd at St. Peter’s Square in Rome — and to the rest of the world — she screamed with joy. She knew him. Gonzalez, a parishioner at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Winnetka, is from Peru. More specifically, she’s from Chiclayo, Peru, the same place where Pope Leo — then known as Father Robert Prevost — was appointed bishop by Pope Francis in late 2014.
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6 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Heather King |Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay
“Final Vows,” a 2024 documentary directed by Victoria Westover, follows the cloistered Cistercian nuns of Santa Rita Abbey in Sonoita, Arizona. Westover filmed the nuns over a period of four years. There is no voiceover, nor are the nuns identified by name. We imbibe the gentle rhythm of their day by seeing them in the chapel, in the kitchen, in the garden, walking the grounds.
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6 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay |Inés San Martín |Kate Scanlon
Hours after U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected during the conclave in Rome and named Pope Leo XIV, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez called it “a great day for the whole world” during a press conference on May 8. “As everyone probably knows, the word ‘Catholic’ means universal,” Gomez said at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Luma Simms |Matt Hadro |Pablo Kay |Mike Cisneros
One day a few years ago, I told my husband with frank sincerity that I was tired of hearing him tell me, “Jesus loves you.” The phrase rang trite and superficial to my ears. I wanted and needed something deeper and more substantial, having become complacent with the story of how Jesus died on the cross for my sins. With equal frankness, he countered, “You have a hard time with love. You can’t believe that Jesus loves you.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Matt Hadro |Pablo Kay |Mike Cisneros
“Well, we just lost him.”It’s never reassuring to hear those words from a fellow Secret Service officer, but given the circumstances on one particular day, they were conveyed in a sort of tone of peaceful resignation. In the midst of his highly anticipated 2015 U.S. tour, Pope Francis found himself shaking hands and mingling with the poor of the nation’s capital, the clients of Catholic Charities DC. It was a stark departure from his schedule of Masses and diplomatic addresses to world leaders.
