In the spotlight: Murdered bishop’s funeral Mass, winter storm, migrant shipwreck victims
Photos of the Week: March 6, 2023
Thousands gather at funeral Mass for LA’s Bishop O’Connell, recalled as ‘soul friend’ to all
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell was remembered as a man “gripped by grace” and “at ease with movers and shakers and also with the moved and shaken” as nearly 5,000 attended a funeral Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels March 3.
LA’s ‘peacemaker’ bishop found fatally shot in his home; death ruled a homicide
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in LA’s inner city, was shot and killed Feb. 18 in his Hacienda Heights home, a neighborhood east of LA.