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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Cindy Wooden |Tom Hoffarth
Mexico’s bishops called for compassion, discernment, and respect for the dignity of all migrants in a statement released June 11, as protests over immigration enforcement continued across Los Angeles and other U.S. cities. The statement, issued by the Mexican Bishops’ Conference office on Human Mobility, expressed “pain and concern” over the mass immigration raids in Los Angeles that have sparked days of demonstrations now spreading to places like San Francisco and Austin, Texas.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Robert Brennan
As an electronics systems engineer at Raytheon, a major U.S. defense contractor based in El Segundo, Ariel Santiago knows a few things about teamwork and difficult missions. When in a team meeting to discuss an upcoming satellite launch, for example, his colleagues — who come from varied religious backgrounds — know who he’s turning to to calm the tension. “I tell them our program has a secret weapon: It’s God,” said Santiago.
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3 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Joseph Joyce |Tom Hoffarth
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 unanimously ruled in favor of the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, which had asked the high court to overturn a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court the agency argued discounted its religious identity.
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3 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Joseph Joyce |Tom Hoffarth |Hannah Brockhaus
When you critique film for an archdiocesan magazine, exorcism movies are something of an occupational hazard. They simply come with the territory, like splinters for lumberjacks or celibacy for aspiring screenwriters. “The Ritual,” in theaters June 6, will be my third in as many years (with several others left unreviewed out of editorial exhaustion). Fortunately if you miss one of them, you can simply see any other to catch up.
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3 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Hannah Brockhaus |Carol Glatz
Dr. David Freyer has already found tremendous fulfillment since joining Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2008 as a pediatric oncologist, serving as the director of its Survivorship and Supportive Care Program, as well as work with patients at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. But his on-call status is about to widen. Freyer is one of 18 candidates who have completed formation and will be ordained permanent deacons for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Saturday, June 7.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Scott Hahn |Tom Hoffarth |Justin Mclellan
May is Mary’s month. Let’s begin it this year by looking at her place in the classic Christian confessions of faith, the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. A creed is a historical record, and so it names names. It calls upon the witness of real historical figures — not only Jesus, but also his mother, Mary, and even the man who condemned Jesus to death, Pontius Pilate. Pilate is well known from ancient sources. His memory was preserved by his contemporaries, almost always in an unflattering light.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Scott Hahn |Justin Mclellan
News of the first sighting of black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, following the first vote in the cardinals’ conclave at the Vatican in Rome, coincided with the start of a special Mass in Los Angeles to pray for the election of a new pope at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on May 7. Archbishop José H.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Caroline de Sury |Paulina Guzik |Robert Brennan |Tom Hoffarth
As cardinals gather in Rome ahead of the May 7 conclave, thousands of pilgrims are flocking to the Basilica of St. Denis in Argenteuil, France, to venerate what's believed to be the holy tunic of Jesus -- the seamless robe described in the Gospels. On display until May 11, the relic has drawn intense devotion, particularly following the recent death of Pope Francis.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Tom Hoffarth |Kimberley A. Heatherington |Ad rem
After videos of people scraping their keys across certain electric vehicles, the other most popular images on social media these days seem to be those of “street preachers,” either standing in the commons of some institution of higher learning, or on a street corner. The street-corner variety almost always seems to be at night, and in a rough part of town. None of the preachers seem to be Catholic. I have mixed feelings about that.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Robert Brennan |Kimberley A. Heatherington
Since he became a priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 27 years ago, Father John Kyebasuuta marvels at what has changed — and what remains the same — every time he makes his annual trip to the Ugandan village where he grew up. On one trip to his hometown on Buvuma Island in Africa’s famous Lake Victoria 10 years ago, Kyebasuuta was struck by the sight of a small boy struggling with a heavy container of water that he drew from a borehole miles away to help his family.
