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A church pastor from Boyle Heights said his parishioners “feel hunted.”

He said Clonduff parishioners have told him his old school "badly needs expansion" so he now hopes "they can take full advantage of this".

Yet the parishioners hope his message will endure.

Where one of Gomez’s own auxiliary bishops, the late David O’Connell, fought environmental racism on behalf of Black parishioners in South L.A., stood with striking hotel workers and prayed with parishioners outside Planned Parenthood clinics.

Francis' positions had drawn backlash from some conservative parishioners, who objected to his suggestion that divorced Catholics could still receive the Eucharist, and more recently, his objection to Trump's deportation plans.