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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Justin Mclellan |Pablo Kay |Cindy Wooden
Cardinals already present in Rome and those who were able to get to the city after Pope Francis' death April 21 held their first meeting at the Vatican April 22. About 60 cardinals met in the Vatican Synod Hall at 9 a.m. to decide when to move the pope's body from the chapel of his residence to St. Peter's Basilica and when to hold the funeral, Matteo Bruni, head of the Vatican press office told reporters.
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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Pablo Kay |Carol Glatz |Cindy Wooden
Archbishop José H. Gomez recalled Pope Francis’ sense of humor and personal concern for Catholics in Southern California at a special Mass April 21, hours after the late pontiff’s death in Rome. “My feelings today are very personal,” said the archbishop at the Easter Monday Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. “I am going to miss him, big time.”The special Mass, announced only hours earlier, drew more than 500 people to the April 21 noon Mass.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Christopher Gunty |Pablo Kay
An LA priest has been arrested after a report was made alleging that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor. Father Jaime Arriaga, 41, was ordained in June 2024 and has been serving as associate pastor at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Downey.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Christopher Gunty |Kate Scanlon |Pablo Kay |Joseph Joyce
The Maryland House passed a bill April 3 that makes significant changes to the Child Victims Act, lowering the limits for future lawsuits for sexual abuse of a minor and limiting the civil damages to each claimant, rather than each incident of alleged abuse. The bill then moved to the Maryland Senate for action before the April 7 end of the session.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Pablo Kay |Joseph Joyce
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children's services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the federal government in those areas became "untenable."Earlier this year, the Trump administration suspended a federal refugee resettlement program as part of its broader effort to enforce its hardline immigration policies.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Pablo Kay |Joseph Joyce
With thousands of infirmed people and those who care for them gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a nasal cannula, made an unexpected appearance to greet the crowd. "A happy Sunday to you all, many thanks!" the pope said to them with a strained voice.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Pablo Kay |Joseph Joyce
After nearly 40 years of wandering in a desert of changing plans and dashed hopes, parishioners at Guardian Angel Church in Pacoima finally reached their Promised Land. And not on Easter, but on a Friday of Lent. The evening of April 4, they came in the hundreds to catch a first glimpse at their shiny new church, filling every one of its 1,030 seats and spilling into the aisles and vestibule for a long-awaited dedication Mass. “It still seems too small,” joked Archbishop José H.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay |Grazie Christie
Prayers for Francis: LA Catholics support the pope during RE Congress Vol. 10 | No. 5 | March 7, 2025 On the cover: An image of Pope Francis was displayed at the Feb. 23 closing Mass of the 2025 LA Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, where thousands of Catholics from around the U.S. found themselves praying for the pope amid uncertainty about his health. On Page 10, associate editor Mike Cisneros heard from congress-goers about what Francis means to them.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Fredrick Nzwili |Pablo Kay |Mike Cisneros
Pope Francis urged Christians to examine their consciences in Lent by comparing their daily lives to the hardships faced by migrants, calling it a way to grow in empathy and discover God's call to compassion.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Fredrick Nzwili |Pablo Kay |Mike Cisneros
A "silent genocide" -- mimicking the Rwandan one of 1994 -- is occurring eastern Congo, said some Catholic Church sources, as shock greeted the killing of 70 people in a Protestant church in the North Kivu Province. The victims were found beheaded with machetes Feb. 15 near the Maiba village in Lubero, a district close to the border between Rwanda and Uganda, according to Fides, a news agency of the Dicastery of Evangelization.
