Archdiocese of Los Angeles Archives

Defeat of California’s attempt to break seal of confession a victory for religious liberty

Interviews
Jul 11, 2019

Kathleen Domingo is Senior Director for the Office of Life, Justice and Peace and Director of Government Relations for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. She helped organize the opposition to a California bill that would have required priests to break the sacramental seal of confession in certain cases.

‘Dangerous’ bill on seal of confession withdrawn before key hearing

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 9, 2019

In a last-minute twist, a California bill that would have required priests to break the sacramental seal of confession was shelved by its sponsor amid a remarkable grassroots campaign mounted by the state’s Catholics, members of other faith groups, and religious liberty advocates from across the country.

Love and family is Christian vision for a happy life, says archbishop

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 4, 2019

A society where children are no longer being born is a society where people no longer understand what makes life worth living,” Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said at the annual summer liturgy conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life.

Catholic aid groups say crisis wrought by family separations far from over

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 4, 2019

In this past year, asylum seekers have been helped by an army of activists and lawyers who stood up to fight the federal government’s immigration policies, and by church volunteers offering legal and social assistance to thousands of others who have come since.

Report: English church officials ‘deliberately misled’ U.S. archdiocese

Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland
Jun 21, 2019

An English Church official “deliberately misled” a U.S. archdiocese into harboring a pedophile priest and helping him to escape justice for a quarter of a century, said a report from a child abuse inquiry.

LA Archbishop says amended confession bill still targets priests, Catholic employees

Church in the US
May 21, 2019

Catholic officials are urging Catholics to continue to oppose a California bill that would force priests to disclose information about child sexual abuse that they hear in the sacrament of confession that is advancing in the state legislature.