All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.

First Saturday of Advent

The church is now recognizing what the local church in Central and South America has always known.

"So many families are wondering how changes to immigration policy might impact them," said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles.