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"As we look around us, we still see many elements of a culture of death," said Cardinal Roger Mahony. "We have a new danger, an assault on life. It has come again in the form of a bill in the state Assembly." Monday was the second anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, and Cardinal Mahony, during Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, urged Catholics to oppose a state bill, AB 374, which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients with only six months...

Homoerotic art featured at auction held Saturday at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral to benefit AIDS clinics in Mexico The AIDS Healthcare Foundation held an art exhibition and auction last night at the conference center of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles to raise money for clinics it sponsors in Tijuana and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A California Catholic Daily reader who saw a preview of the event on a Los Angeles television program alerted the newsaper via email regarding the event. "They showed some of the items, and it was really gross -- men hugging, tops...

The Rite Move By Stephen Bainbridge For hundreds of years, the Latin Mass was a potent symbol of the Church Universal, which transcended nationality, ethnicity, culture, and language. The Latin Mass familiar to Catholics old enough to remember how worship was conducted before Vatican II was known as the Tridentine Rite because it had been codified by the Council of Trent. From 1570, when Pope Pius V's Quo Primum bull authorized the use of that rite, "without scruple of conscience or fear of penalty," until the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, the Tridentine Mass was the...

Amy Berg's "Deliver us from Evil" indicts the Archbishop of Los Angeles for not reigning in and protecting a serial pedophile. Folks, Fr. Oliver O'Grady was a California priest who raped dozens of children from the 1970s until his arrest in 1993 -- and who now lives in Ireland, a free man. Allegations against him include the rape of a 9 month old baby. Amy Berg's documentary, entitled Deliver Us from Evil shows that O'Grady was consistently protected by the diocese hierarchy, which moved him from one mid-state parish to another whenever complaints arose. In California, well over 400 Catholic...

Covenant News Covenanters Join Marches in L.A., Chicago LOS ANGELES (May 3) - Two Evangelical Covenant Church conference leaders were among those participating in the immigration reform demonstration here Monday, and a Covenant pastor in Chicago says it was important that he and several students participated in the Midwest city's march the same day. Two walks occurred in Los Angeles, and Greg Yee and Walter Contreras found themselves near the front of the second event, walking alongside Cardinal Roger Mahoney. They were subsequently joined by other Covenant pastors participating in the march, which police say attracted some 500,000 individuals. Yee...

t was one of those providential moments. On Wednesday, April 19, I was in Los Angeles researching a book I am writing on the state of California. With an hour to kill between appointments, I decided to check out the city's controversial new $200 million cathedral, a clunky modernist structure with all the spiritual allure of a grain elevator. Given the $3 per 20-minute charge to park, I intended to make the visit quick. I emerged from the parking garage, however, right in front of a press table. "Are you here for the press conference?" asked the woman attending it....

Criminalizing the Good Samaritan 04/17/06 Except for the fact that she will very likely be the next Democratic Party candidate for the presidency, there is no reason to take seriously Hillary Clinton’s recent comment that House Bill 4437 on immigration “would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus Himself.” The Senator says what she says to position herself favorably for her presidential campaign. A year ago, she was on the radio in New York City proclaiming her determination to stop illegal immigration and punishing employers who hired undocumented workers. Why the difference between last year and this? We...

"On Friday, March 31, 2006, ChurchWerks.com hosted an online chat session with Cardinal Roger Mahony from the main Exhibit Hall at the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, Calif. Here is an excerpt:See conversationJoe: Hello Cardinal. With the growing interest in traditional worship of the Catholic Church are we going to see a more generous use of the Traditional Latin Mass? Cardinal Mahony: It is not correct to say "traditional worship" in our Church. For a small slice of Church history, Latin was the language of Mass. But the Council moved us beyond that to a new Roman Missal. We must...

KFI bottom of the hour news in Los Angeles just had a report that Cardinal Roger Mahoney is urging Catholics to fast on April 5 to support illegal aliens. He will be holding a special mass. If you have any additional info, please add to this report.

Rep. Peter King, R-NY, said Sunday that the immigration reform bill that he's co-sponsoring with Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., would have no impact whatsoever on Catholic Church programs that minister to illegal immigrants. "There's absolutely nothing in this bill that is going to put at risk any nun or priest or social worker or social agency," King told WABC Radio's "Religion on the Line." "There's been language in our law for over 50 years saying it's wrong to aid and abet or encourage illegal immigrants to come into the country or stay in the country," King said. "And that's aimed...

When it comes to illegal immigration, suddenly liberal Democrats have only one guide to public policy: ''What would Jesus do?'' The target of their Bible-based ire is a border-enforcement bill that recently passed the House and is allegedly the greatest challenge Christianity has faced since the lions in the Colosseum.     Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said ''This bill would literally criminalize the good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.'' Note: not figuratively, but literally. The New York Times has attacked the bill with an editorial titled, ''The Gospel vs. H.R. 4437.'' Stoking all the Bible-thumping is Cardinal Roger Mahony of...

In today’s editions of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, there are editorials praising Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Cardinal Mahony for opposing restrictive immigration bills. If a bill with punitive measures gets passed, Cardinal Mahony wants priests and the laity to defy the law. Here’s what Catholic League president Bill Donohue had to say about this development: “The Los Angeles Times not only commends Cardinal Mahony for his latest statement on public policy, it congratulates him for ‘reinforcing the right of religious leaders to speak out on the moral ramifications of political issues.’ This is a dramatic...

I may have missed it somewhere. But does anyone know what Caridinal Mahoney's reaction to the document is? I bet he pretty pissed about it! I will be surprised to hear otherwise.

LOS ANGELES, September 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The annual service award for the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is billed as rewards for “long and distinguished records of service,” according to the Los Angeles diocesan newspaper, the Tidings. Roger Cardinal Mahoney, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, chose to include among this year’s recipients attorney William M. Wardlaw, “a parishioner of Holy Family Church in South Pasadena.”Wardlaw, according to the diocesan newspaper, is a “business executive who has served on numerous school and organization boards in the archdiocese including Catholic Charities.” What is not mentioned is that Wardlaw is also a...

"It's perfectly fitting, then, that those who find God boring replace the Roman Ritual -- as far as possible -- with the kind of floor show you see above (That's the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles under the second E of EEK -- at the youth mass for the recent Religious Ed Congress). Face it, when you need an electric bass and dancing cheerleaders to keep your audience from fidgeting or drifting away, you're admitting the Main Act is a flop from the get-go."

Cardinal Stonewaller By George Neumayr Published 5/27/2003 12:03:00 AM Reality continues to outpace satire at Cardinal Roger Mahony's cathedral in Los Angeles. The perplexing cathedral now boasts one more innovation: a chapel dedicated to honoring "victims of sexual abuse by priests," reports the Los Angeles Times. Mahony invited the media to his chapel opening on Sunday. But he didn't tender an invitation to the honorees. And they weren't touched. While Mahony "knelt silently in the chapel in front of television cameras," reports the Times, Mary Grant of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests "fumed" outside the church building....