Angelus wins top honors for LA wildfire coverage at Catholic Media Awards
Angelus received a total of 19 Catholic Media Awards for work published in 2025, including top honors for its coverage of the January 2025 LA wildfires and for Editor-in-Chief Pablo Kay as “Editor of the Year.”
The awards were announced at the conclusion of the 2026 Catholic Media Conference, held June 16-19 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The magazine’s wildfire coverage earned First Place in the “Best Coverage – Disaster or Crises” category, with judges praising its “real immediacy, strong follow-up, and a clear sense of what this crisis meant to the affected faith community.”