Angelus News Covers Covid-19
Angelus News provides coverage in the time of COVID-19
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LA’s synod listening sessions set to start after COVID-19 delay
While a surge in COVID-19 cases has slowed the start of the local phase of the global Synod of Bishops on Synodalit... READ MORE »
LA Catholic schools secure more COVID testing, better masks
The big spike in COVID-19 cases caused by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the virus has led some Catholi... READ MORE »
Adopt-A-Family steps up efforts during second COVID Christmas
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual Adopt-a-Family program is finding ways to help struggling families this Ch... READ MORE »
Ministry for sailors eyes a comeback
For years, maritime crews streaming into the Stella Maris Crew Center and Chapel were greeted by a sign depicting t... READ MORE »
Schools not requiring COVID vaccine
Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will not require COVID-19 vaccinations for students, despite the... READ MORE »
Archbishop asks LA priests to be vaccinated
Archbishop José H. Gomez is requesting that priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles be vaccinated against the co... READ MORE »
No COVID-19 vaccine exemptions
Amid continued public debate over so-called “vaccine mandates,” the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is encouraging t... READ MORE »
Mask mandate returning to churches in LA County
LA County’s reinstated mask mandate will affect Massgoers this Sunday, as the Department of Public Health is requ... READ MORE »
School helps grads navigate their big decision
Before he became deputy superintendent of elementary schools for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Tony Galla was a C... READ MORE »
LA archdiocese lifts Mass dispensation
Churches in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will fully reopen next weekend, the archdiocese announced June 12. In a ... READ MORE »
Class of 2021 reflects on pandemic year
For the more than 5,700 graduating seniors from Catholic high schools across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the la... READ MORE »
Grad’s COVID marked by heartbreak and hope
Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School sounds like a big name for a fairly small school. Tucked into the Har... READ MORE »
Altar bread industry in crisis
Of the many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Catholic Church, one has gone largely unnoticed. A... READ MORE »
Bigger Audience for Virtual Novena
COVID-19 restrictions proved an unexpected blessing to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual novena for healing ... READ MORE »
CA lift indoor worship rules
California’s Catholic bishops “remain committed to the complete resumption of indoor worship in a res... READ MORE »
Regional Approach in COVID Consolidations
Six parochial schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will be consolidated with other schools at the end of the s... READ MORE »
Sports resume at high schools
Louisville High School’s girls’ water polo season started and ended last Saturday, March 20. That’s right: on... READ MORE »
Catholic kids connect with isolated seniors
A new outreach project from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is relying on the creative skills of local Catholic kids... READ MORE »
LA parishes take hybrid approach
Last year, the liturgical season of Lent was marked by an abrupt coronavirus-induced shutdown that forced parish li... READ MORE »
Catholic schools cautiously reopen
After emptying out of their families’ cars into the parking lot of St. Bernard School in Bellflower on March 3, t... READ MORE »
COVID’s ‘last responders’
Once their obligatory wellness and temperature checks are done, employees at All Souls Catholic Cemetery and Mausol... READ MORE »
COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity’
The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vacci... READ MORE »
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines morally acceptable
While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COV... READ MORE »
COVID-19 vaccine can be used in good conscience
In a new video, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine reiterated that use of the Johnson &a... READ MORE »
Catholic volunteers receive vaccines
Margaret Whitty didn’t hesitate when given the opportunity to be among the first residents of the Stella Mari... READ MORE »
Pope Francis and Benedict XVI receive second dose
Pope Francis and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI have both received their second and final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine,... READ MORE »
COVID vaccines for priests
The clergy of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (ADLA) are far from immune to the challenges of securing coronavirus v... READ MORE »
Pope addressed REC 2021
In a video message to the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, Pope Francis said Thursday the suffering caused... READ MORE »
Two schools with different pulses
Two Catholic elementary schools separated by less than two miles in Boyle Heights illustrate how in the times of CO... READ MORE »
LA Schools: Reopening During COVID
All things considered, Debbie Marquez didn’t realize how much she missed certain sounds. “The giggles and the l... READ MORE »
Mass for the sick
As COVID-19 kept all but a handful of people from gathering in the vast Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral on Februar... READ MORE »
Supreme Courts Lift Ban
Churches in California can open for indoor services after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a state ban on indoor w... READ MORE »
Ventura County outdoor worship
Drive west along Highway 126 west of Santa Clarita on a Sunday morning into the town of Piru. Take a right to East ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez Gets COVID Vaccine
Archbishop José H. Gomez thanked healthcare workers and expressed support for efforts to vaccinate Southern Califo... READ MORE »
Driven by God
In the days of “safer at home” and social distancing, the corner of Lincoln Boulevard and Garfield Avenue might... READ MORE »
Indoor religious gatherings
Churches in Los Angeles County will be allowed to reopen for indoor services for the first time in five months unde... READ MORE »
Meet the ‘Media Nuns’ that a pandemic can’t stop
When they first came to Los Angeles in 1987, the Daughters of St. Paul were known nationally as “blue-collar sist... READ MORE »
Local Latino leaders raise $55,000 for East LA Catholic schools
Local Latino leaders announced a $55,000 donation to help six Catholic schools in East Los Angeles facing financial... READ MORE »
LA’s Simbang Gabi novena to go outdoors – and back to its roots
Jordan Mangaliman remembers waking in the middle of a mid-December night to sweet and savory scents as his parents ... READ MORE »
LA’s 2020 Guadalupe celebrations to be held virtually due to COVID-19
Annual archdiocesan celebrations in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will have a different look this year, with the t... READ MORE »
Archdiocese launches digital Advent calendar for LA Catholics
Southern California Catholics are being invited to make use of a “digital Advent calendar” to help prepare spir... READ MORE »
Several LA Catholic schools keeping classrooms open amid virus surge
A total of 47 Catholic schools in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties can offer some form of in-person... READ MORE »
Christ the King Eucharistic procession cancelled amid COVID surge
As cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continue to climb in California and across the country, the United in Christ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez prays for COVID-19 victims at Día de los Muertos vigil
The lives of people lost to the “long, dark months of the coronavirus pandemic” was on the mind of Arch... READ MORE »
St. Maria Goretti becomes first Catholic school in LA County to reopen classrooms
Blustery gusts of chilly air and swirling autumn leaves provided a fitting backdrop for the winds of change moving ... READ MORE »
LA Archdiocese offers Dia de los Muertos resources amid pandemic
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is helping Catholic students and their families celebrate Día de los Muertos amid t... READ MORE »
The plights and joys of Catholic wedding planning during a global pandemic
The Sept. 12 wedding uniting Krystal Gil and Jack Scanlon in the Spanish courtyard of St. Mary Magdalen Church in C... READ MORE »
2020 White Mass to recognize SoCal’s ‘army’ of healers
During his working hours as medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program at Cedars Sinai Hospital, Dr. Edwin P... READ MORE »
Marymount senior’s free tutoring program helps students during pandemic
Last April, Sophia Scott faced something highly unusual in her life: a summer that was completely free. The Marymou... READ MORE »
California church files for preliminary injunction on Newsom’s restrictions
After a federal appeals court rejected its motion for an emergency injunction against California Gov. Gavin Newsom&... READ MORE »
South LA Catholic school celebrates back-to-school campus facelift
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini School in South Los Angeles celebrated the culmination of a $1.5 million campus renovati... READ MORE »
Daily dance keeps distance learning fun for St. Joseph School students, teachers
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced St. Joseph School in La Puente to start the 2020-2021 school year with distance l... READ MORE »
Public, faith-based schools in Los Angeles call for return to in-person learning
A group of public, private, and faith-based school officials, as well as physicians and parents, are arguing for a ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez, LA Catholics celebrate Mass of solidarity with immigrants
Thousands of Catholics from Southern California and across the country joined Archbishop José H. Gomez in a virtua... READ MORE »
Catholics in LA invited to prayer and pilgrimage for migrants, refugees
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is inviting Catholics to join in a novena and to watch Masses online this weekend in... READ MORE »
Meet the LA Catholic who’s lived through two pandemics
To mark the occasion of her 107th birthday last Aug. 14, Caridad Papa had to accept some limitations. Although her ... READ MORE »
The future of Catholic schools
We begin this new school year with great hope and lots of uncertainty. Across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, our s... READ MORE »
How LA religion teachers are keeping distance learning ‘Catholic’
When Gary Sullivan met with his fellow faculty members earlier this summer, the list of things to sort out for the ... READ MORE »
Why LA families are sticking with Catholic education in a pandemic
As a native Angeleno who attended public schools her whole life and is now an adjunct instructor in child developme... READ MORE »
Amid latest COVID restrictions, LA churches take the sacraments outside
“Move your hair, Nida,” advises Father Raymond Decipeda as a woman approaches a row of temperature scanners out... READ MORE »
Love in the time of COVID-19
When Amanda Valenzuela and Stephen Osborn became engaged last November, they planned to marry at the newly renovate... READ MORE »
Eight LA priests ordained in ‘historic’ liturgy pushed outdoors by pandemic
“Here we are,” Archbishop José H. Gomez said, greeting the relatively small, socially distanced gathering that... READ MORE »
Masks, pods, and lots of wipes: CIF sports eyes return to action
On the surface, it looks almost like business as usual, with football players exercising under a warm summer sun an... READ MORE »
California bishops call for rapid, but safe, reopening of schools
On Wednesday, July 22, the bishops of California urged Governor Gavin Newsom to develop safe procedures to reopen s... READ MORE »
Start of CIF fall sports delayed until December
Having been idle since March, the resumption of local high school athletics has been delayed until December as coro... READ MORE »
LA Catholic schools to begin school year with distance learning
As coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continue to climb in California, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has changed plans t... READ MORE »
For Filipino American nurses on COVID-19 front lines, faith is stronger than fear
When the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic first hit Los Angeles earlier this year, Kim Hernandez offered to serve on... READ MORE »
LA parishes encouraged to hold outdoor services amid new restrictions
Parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have been told to “discontinue indoor Masses and other liturgical serv... READ MORE »
Restrictions on funerals, visiting hours lifted at LA Catholic cemeteries
Administrators announced Friday that some COVID-19-related restrictions on funeral Masses, visitation hours, and ... READ MORE »
Media Nuns faith formation course goes virtual in 15th year
The Pauline Center for Media Studies will offer its annual certification course online this year. The media nuns an... READ MORE »
The pandemic’s devastating effect on American mental health
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taken a heavy human toll in the United States and in California: 125,000 an... READ MORE »
LA Religious Education Congress to go virtual in 2021
Next year’s Religious Education Congress (REC) will be held virtually due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,... READ MORE »
SoCal Catholic high schools cautiously prepare to resume sports
Does everyone connected with local high school athletics — students, coaches, officials, administrators, families... READ MORE »
Life lessons for LA Catholic graduates in a pandemic
When members of the Class of 2020 are asked someday what graduating during a pandemic was like, they’ll have some... READ MORE »
LA Catholic schools to resume in-person classes this fall
The Department of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has announced that Archdiocesan Catholic scho... READ MORE »
Church leaders urge scientists to develop ethical COVID-19 vaccine
Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Valencia made headlines when he described as a “work of the dev... READ MORE »
An LA family’s coronavirus ordeal: ‘No choice but to hold on to God’
Rosa Sepulveda took a deep breath before trying to describe how she has been processing life since early March of t... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez celebrates first public Mass since shutdown
On June 7, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated his first Mass at the Cathe... READ MORE »
As churches prepare to reopen, LA Catholics reflect on lessons of the shutdown
Msgr. John Barry has been alive for almost 83 years, been a priest for 59, and served as pastor at American Martyrs... READ MORE »
Entrust world’s troubles to Mary, Archbishop says during special Marian liturgy
The Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church is a call to entrust our troubles to her while trusting in God’s plan ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez calls for food drives on Pentecost weekend
In celebration of the feast of Pentecost, Archbishop José H. Gomez has encouraged local parishes to hold outdoor a... READ MORE »
‘This is what we’re for’: LAPD officers call in spiritual backup during pandemic
As those working in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) continue to navigate the realities of upholding the mo... READ MORE »
Catholic churches in Archdiocese of LA to reopen under phased plan
After being closed for more than two months due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, churches in the Archdiocese... READ MORE »
California churches can reopen at 25% capacity
Churches in California can begin holding services again at a limited capacity, the state announced on Monday. The ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez ‘hopeful’ LA churches will reopen soon
In a new message to the faithful Archbishop José H. Gomez said he is hopeful that churches in the Archdiocese of L... READ MORE »
Order of Malta, Carmelites get creative to deliver ‘care for the caregivers’ in LA
In the early weeks of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los An... READ MORE »
Van Nuys school offers drive-thru Mother’s Day
In the chaos of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, parents are feeling the pressure: working from home, supervisi... READ MORE »
Hollywood parish thanks essential workers
At a livestreamed Mass on May 17, Blessed Sacrament Church in Hollywood honored those working on the front lines of... READ MORE »
East LA parochial school keeps busy thanks to free lunch program
By 9 a.m. on a recent Friday, the line of mostly young mothers already stretched for a block down the sidewalk alon... READ MORE »
Pandemic sparks a renewed focus on idea of ‘the domestic church’
Deborah DiPaulo sat down on her living room couch one Friday and turned on her laptop. She had cleared out her sche... READ MORE »
LA Catholics invited to join interreligious day of prayer for end to pandemic
LA Catholics are being invited to join people of faith around the world for an interreligious day of fasting, praye... READ MORE »
Catholic Community Foundation grants support Los Angeles communities during pandemic
In these exceptional times of need, there is a beacon of hope in the Greater Los Angeles landscape. Since the begin... READ MORE »
LA Catholics get a weekly Spotify fix
Most Catholics get their weekly dose of spiritual music at Mass on Sunday, but with churches closed due to the coro... READ MORE »
LA Catholic schools to keep ‘distance learning’ through end of school year
Catholic schools throughout Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties will continue with distance learning th... READ MORE »
LA Catholic cemeteries reopen with limited hours, restrictions
Catholic cemeteries in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties are reopening to the public starting today ... READ MORE »
Silent pandemics: The hidden crises fueled by COVID-19 — and the efforts to help
The quarantine drags on. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced governments worldwide to enforce strict s... READ MORE »
Coronavirus and Catholic family life: Gomez urges prayer during online town hall
Catholic families can respond to the coronavirus epidemic through prayer, connection with each other, and care for ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez to host virtual town hall meeting for families
Archbishop José H. Gomez will host a virtual town hall meeting for families this Wednesday, May 6, at 12 pm Pacifi... READ MORE »
How a special ADLA fund pays bills for families hit hard in the pandemic
When Cardinal James Francis McIntyre established the then-called Archbishop’s Fund in 1951, he had a few simple, ... READ MORE »
Archbishop Gomez consecrates US to Mary, tells Catholics to ‘trust God’s plan’
On May 1, thousands of Catholics across the United States and Canada tuned in to participate in a livestreamed litu... READ MORE »