Packed into the lobby of a Motel 8 in Indio on a sweltering September afternoon, a Diocesan delegation led by Bishop Alberto Rojas listened to powerful stories from families who had made desperate journeys to the
The Biden Administration’s State Department is reportedly blocking the rescue of Afghani Christian converts seeking to flee the now Taliban-run nation in order to escape an almost certain and unimaginably grotesque death. With the August 31
Archbishop José Gomez told parentless migrant children waiting to be settled in the U.S. to trust in God’s plan for their lives, during a Mass held at a federal emergency shelter in Long Beach Sunday morning.
Los Angeles priests have begun celebrating weekend Masses for unaccompanied migrant children housed at federal emergency shelters in Long Beach and Pomona.
The private liturgies began in early May after the Archdiocese of
With the U.S. experiencing a surge in those coming to our Southern border seeking political asylum, the San Bernadino diocese has reignited its “Operation Bienvenida.” On Good Friday, Bishop Alberto Rojas issued a
The San Diego Convention Center, fitted with cots and not much else, is the temporary home of nearly 1,500 unaccompanied minors. The surge at the border, the highest in 20 years, is stressing the neglected U.S.
The U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference praised the Supreme Court on Thursday for a decision that keeps the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program intact — for now. “First, to DACA youth,
California’s Catholic bishops have asked Governor Gavin Newsom to increase aid to undocumented and low-wage residents of the state “because the virus doesn’t know the difference between someone who has the right legal documents and those
July 24, 2019 Greetings Father Lucas and Reverend Martel and Pastoral Council: Respectfully, I please request that you remove anti-ICE literature from narthex of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. Stacks of
On Sept. 27, the St. Patrick’s Seminary & University community celebrated the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, the patron saint of the Philippines and the Filipino people, with a procession, Mass and traditional
