Angelus News | May 31, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 20

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ANGELUS May 31, 2019 | Vol.4 • No.20 3424 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010-2241 (213) 637-7360 • FAX (213) 637-6360 — Published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles by The Tidings (a corporation), established 1895. Publisher ARCHBISHOP JOSÉ H. GOMEZ Vice Chancellor for Communications DAVID SCOTT Editor PABLO KAY pkay@angelusnews.com Multimedia Editor TAMARA LONG-GARCÍA ttirado@angelusnews.com Production Coordinator OSVALDO CISTERNAS oecisternas@angelusnews.com Features Editor R.W. DELLINGER bdellinger@angelusnews.com Photo Editor VICTOR ALEMÁN valeman@angelusnews.com Managing Editor RICHARD G. BEEMER rbeemer@angelusnews.com Assistant Editor HANNAH SWENSON hswenson@angelusnews.com Circulation CHRIS KRAUSE ckrause@angelusnews.com Advertising Manager JIM GARCIA JAGarcia@angelusnews.com Sales PATTY BROOKS pabrooks@angelusnews.com MARY CASARES mcasares@angelusnews.com JOE MANZA jmanza@angelusnews.com CHUCK MILAN cmilan@angelusnews.com ANGELUS is published weekly except at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas and semiweekly in July and August by The Tidings (a corporation), established 1895. Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, California. One-year subscriptions (44 issues), $30.00; single copies, $1.00 © 2019 ANGELUS (2473-2699). No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Events and products advertised in ANGELUS do not carry the implicit endorsement of The Tidings Corporation or the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: ANGELUS, PO Box 306, Congers, NY 10920-0306. For Subscription and Delivery information, please call (844) 245-6630 (Mon - Fri, 7 am-4 pm PT). facebook.com/ AngelusNews POPE WATCH Fighting fake news The task of journalism is to seek the truth, which requires humility and freedom of the press, Pope Francis told foreign correspondents working in Italy at a May 18 audience at the Vatican. “At a time when many spread fake news, humility keeps you from peddling food spoiled by disinformation and invites you to offer the good bread of truth. The humble journalist is a free journalist: free from pressures, free from biases,” he said. Because of the great impact they can have, journalists have a huge responsibility to get the story right, which includes paying attention to the words and images they choose and the information they share on social media, the pope said. Journalists, Francis said, must always recognize the power they hold and resist the temptation to assume they already know everything and to publish news that has not been adequately fact-checked. “At a time when many tend to prejudge everything and everyone, humility also helps journalists not be dominated by speed and to try to slow down, to find the time needed to understand” and get all the facts right before telling the story or commenting, he said. The pope recognized the temptation to do what is easier: not ask too many questions; be happy with the initial answers or predictable solutions; oversimplify; not go in-depth and stick to just how things appear. Instead, it takes much effort to carry out a proper info@ angelusnews.com www.angelusnews.com FOLLOW US Angelus News investigation in order to “represent the complexity of real life.” People must understand that “an article, a tweet, a live television or radio broadcast can do good,” but journalists also “can do harm to others and sometimes entire communities if they are not careful and meticulous,” the pope said. The pope also recognized the perils many journalists face and the lives lost when covering conflicts or other tragedies, and told the correspondents the world needs journalists “who are on the side of the victims, the persecuted, those who are excluded, rejected, and discriminated against” because of their religion or ethnicity. The world needs a light shone on “the darkness of indifference” and to be consistently reminded of those who suffer, victims of forgotten wars, babies who are aborted, children who lack food and health care, child soldiers and the lives of those who have been violated, he said. The pope urged journalists to cover all the immense good that people are doing in the world — people who do not give in to indifference, who do not flee in the face of injustice, but who seek to quietly build a better world. “There is an ocean overflowing with good that deserves to be known and that gives strength to our hope,” he said. Reporting courtesy of Catholic News Service Rome correspondent Carol Glatz. @Angelus News www.la-archdiocese.org @Angelus News 2 • ANGELUS • May 31, 2019
NEW WORLD OF FAITH BY ARCHBISHOP JOSÉ H. GOMEZ Christ is alive in his Church These days have been a busy and beautiful time in my ministry. As I write, it is the ninth anniversary of my welcome Mass as coadjutor archbishop of Los Angeles. Who knows where the time goes? These years have been the joy of my life and I thank God for this privilege to serve the family of God here. We are coming to the end of Mary’s month, and in these years in Los Angeles I have felt a growing sense of her loving presence in my life and her protection of this local Church named for her as the Queen of the Angels. We are nearing the end of that happy time after Easter. After baptizing and welcoming many new believers at the Easter vigil, in these weeks after Easter I find myself celebrating three or four confirmations a week in parishes all across the archdiocese. The Church is alive here in Los Angeles, and growing — I see it in the excitement of these young men and women coming to be confirmed. They are hungry to know what God is like, and where they can find him, and how they should worship him, and what all of this means for how they should live. These young people are ready to follow Jesus wherever he leads. And they are inspiring to me in my own faith, my own walk with Jesus. This month I also had the joy to install Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Brennan as the new bishop of Fresno, our neighbor to the north. And just after that, we welcomed a new bishop here, ordaining Auxiliary Bishop Alex Aclan. “Jesus promised to be with his Church until the end of the age and promised his Spirit to guide us.“ We were joined in these celebrations by Pope Francis’ personal representative to our country, Apostolic Nuncio Christophe Pierre. His presence was a sign of hope, a reminder that every local Church is united by spiritual bonds to a Church that is universal and global and at the same time is a divine institution established by Christ on the foundations of the Twelve Apostles. We celebrated, here and in Fresno, with joyful, festive liturgies, and simple gatherings of families and friends. There was fun and laughter and tears of joy. For me, it was a personal joy to be with the families of Bishop Brennan and Bishop Aclan, to meet their loved ones and to realize how the loving example they saw in their homes gave birth to their vocations, their joyful faith, and sense of service. During his remarks at his ordination ceremony, Bishop Aclan was visibly moved as he talked about his love for our Blessed Mother Mary. I will never forget that moment and the feeling of Mary’s maternal presence watching over all of us and our families. I am getting ready, in the weekends to come, to ordain new priests and permanent deacons for the family of God. Once again, God has blessed us with fine men who love him and have a heart to reveal him to others. We need to remember these graces, all these beautiful traces of God that we see in our everyday lives. I know I do. Jesus promised to be with his Church until the end of the age and promised his Spirit to guide us. He will not leave us. Jesus died for us, he rose for us, and now he walks with us. And if we know where to look, and how to look — with the eyes of faith — we will see that Christ is alive in his Church. I see him working in the hidden sacrifices of priests, giving everything they have to bring Jesus to their people, to help them know God’s love and his plan for their lives. I see him working in our parishes and chancery offices, in our schools and ministries and homes. There are saints and servants of the Gospel in all these places! All around us, the risen Lord is still making things new, still changing hearts and minds, transfiguring this rough clay of our humanity so that we can partake in his divinity. Let’s ask God to give us the eyes to see that! Pray for me this week and I will pray for you. Keep praying for the Church and working to renew the Church by your own holiness. Let us ask Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, to help us every day to love Jesus more and to do everything for the glory of God and the love of our neighbors. To read more columns by Archbishop José H. Gomez or to subscribe, visit www.angelusnews.com. May 31, 2019 • ANGELUS • 3
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