Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles, A Corporation Sole

After much research, prayer, and careful discernment, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will embark on a historic effort to respond through Called to Renew, a campaign to secure $500 million in transformative gifts that will give our local church both the much-needed flexibility to respond to critical social needs and an investment for future generations. Without some measure of financial endowment, the Archdiocese is only able to react instead of planning and designing programs that proactively aid our parishes and Catholic ministries.

https://calledtorenew.org/

Providing tuition assistance to the most financially deserving students attending Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

https://cefdn.org/

The Priest Retirement Fund is a second collection/annual appeal in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that was created in 2009 to supplement the normal pension benefits received by all priests who are incardinated in the archdiocese and who have been appointed to an archdiocesan assignment. These raised funds assist in basic living, medical, prescriptive and senior care.

More than 250 Catholic schools serve the counties of the Greater Los Angeles Region. The tradition of Catholic education in the United States can be traced back to the 1600s. The Church in Los Angeles opened its first schools in the 1850s. Catholic schools equip students to follow in the footsteps of the saints and take the redeeming message of the Gospel into the world – in every profession, every household, every neighborhood and across social classes.

https://lacatholicschools.org/

The Office of Life, Justice, and Peace (OLJP) implements the vision of Archbishop José Gomez on social issues by offering strategic leadership to parishes and community partners through education, advocacy, prayer, and service. OLJP promotes the common good, rooting initiatives in the reality that each person is created by God for a relationship with him and in community with others.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, with our vast ethnic, cultural and economic diversity, is a small manifestation of the universal Church. Promoting authentic human development in this context requires a culture of encounter and a transformative commitment to solidarity.

OLJP focuses on the issues of abortion, assisted suicide, immigration, death penalty, human trafficking, homelessness, poverty, foster care, healthcare, post-abortion healing, religious freedom, and environmental justice within the context of developing an authentic human ecology for the communities of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Ministers to those affected by crime: the incarcerated, survivors of crime, and the families of both. In addition to communion/Masses, Chaplains and volunteers provide 1-on-1 visits and small group sessions in jails, detention centers, and camps to help adults and youth reconcile with God and find a new path for their lives. ORJ also ministers to their families to help maintain connections during incarceration and beyond. ORJ provides pastoral services and support to survivors of crime as part of its efforts to aid with reentry and community healing.

Queen of Angels Center for Priestly Formation serves college-age seminarians who are completing their academic studies on the undergraduate level and discerning a vocation to the priesthood. As a program of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Queen of Angels seeks to form seminarians committed to an ongoing relationship with Jesus and to foster a spirit of generous service for God’s people. Queen of Angels encourages seminarians to grow in apostolic zeal to be missionary disciples. We are called to inspire and challenge these young men to live out God’s call for them.

The Propagation of the Faith continues to seek prayer and sacrifice for the world's missions, now some 1,100 diocese in Asia, Africa, and Pacific Islands and remote regions of Latin America. Help is offered for pastoral and evangelizing programs, for catechists and catechetical work, to building churches and chapels, for the work of Religious Communicates in health care and education, and for communication and transportation needs.

The Missionary Childhood Association (MCA) is one of the Pontifical Mission Societies that operates in every diocese of the world under papal statute: Pontifical Mission Societies Statute, 1-13. MCA helps young Catholics to become more aware and appreciative of the multicultural dimension of the Church.