A small cadre of dedicated volunteers busily spruced up the buildings and grounds of St. Michael’s Episcopal Ministry Center in Riverside on a recent Wednesday as though their lives depended on it. Damion, 43, believes his does. A few years ago, he lived in Hunt Park across the street, “doing whatever I had to to […]
Southland Episcopalians said a June 20 pilgrimage to visit asylum-seekers at the Adelanto Detention Center in commemoration of World Refugee Day ended in frustration and anger when authorities prevented them from entering the troubled facility. Instead, a few members of the interfaith group formed a small prayer circle in front of the detention center and […]
As John H. Taylor is ordained to the episcopate July 8 and prepares to become seventh bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles upon Bishop J. Jon Bruno’s retirement, The Episcopal News takes a look back at their predecessors, the bishops who led the diocese from its beginnings as part of the Diocese of California. […]
In our increasingly complex world, Jesus’s words in Matthew 25 hold deepened meaning as we contemplate what it truly means to feed the hungry, refresh the thirsty, and shelter those fleeing oppression in all its forms. In this regard, recent weeks have seen the diocesan community engaged in heightened advocacy for individuals and families in […]
Bishop J. Jon Bruno on June 21 appointed the Rev. Canon Charleen Crean as archdeacon of the diocese, effective Aug. 1. Crean will succeed retiring Archdeacon Joanne Leslie, who has served in that position since 2011. Bruno also appointed Canon Hank Gatlin of St. Francis’ Church, Palos Verdes Estates, to the newly created position of […]
The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno named one priest and two laypeople to the “Order of Angels” and 16 as honorary canons of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul during a banquet May 9 during the annual Clergy Conference, held this year at the Mission Inn in Riverside. The Order of Angels, established by Bruno […]
The Very Rev. Canon Melissa J. McCarthy — vicar of Epiphany, Oak Park, and dean of the diocese’s El Norte deanery encompassing Santa Barbara and Ventura counties — will serve incoming Bishop Coadjutor-elect John Harvey Taylor as canon to the ordinary, it was announced May 14. The position combines the traditional title of “canon” or […]
The annual Red Shirt Project, which takes young people from Los Angeles and other dioceses on a pilgrimage to work and learn with the Oglala-Lakota people of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, will get an international dimension this year as the Rt. Rev. Don Tamihere, newly ordained bishop of Tairawhiti, the Maori homeland churches […]
The Rev. Yein Esther Kim says attending the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) in New York March 13 – 24 was amazing, powerful and ought to happen all the time, not just two weeks each year. She and others hope to take that recommendation for consideration by deputies to […]
Several diocesan clergy were among those arrested during the Maundy Thursday Interfaith Day of Prophetic Action to protest the recent actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. About 300 demonstrators gathered at the La Plaza United Methodist Church at La Placita Olvera and marched along Los Angeles Street, waving signs and chanting, “Immigrants are […]
