Los Angeles Archbishop Gomez honors Pope Francis and his ‘many kindnesses’

Archbishop José H. Gomez joined Catholics in Los Angeles and around the world Monday in mourning Pope Francis, who died at age 88.

Gomez will honor Pope Francis in the 12:10 p.m. Mass Monday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. The Archbishop issued a statement, calling the beloved Pope and towering world figure a man of “many kindnesses and expressions of pastoral care for us here in Los Angeles.”

Gomez said, in part, “In this time of mourning, my prayer is that all of us in the Church will honor Pope Francis’ legacy by remembering that he called us to urgent tasks that are still not finished: We must continue our work of serving the poor, the migrant, and all who are forgotten on society’s ‘peripheries.’

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