Catholic California, by Charles A. Coulombe

Having come back to California after years abroad, I must admit that the tarnish on the Golden State is exceedingly visible.  I was born in New York City, New York, but lived most of my life around Los Angeles.  It has not escaped me that my native states and cities have respectively the two stupidest governors and mayors in the Glorious Union.  The homeless problem in LA has ballooned in my absence, while inflation and corporate flight are wreaking horror on the economy in all of California.  A great many of my friends have fled.

But for all that, I want to look at some of the things that will still attract the outsider – and especially the Catholic outsider – to visit.  I do not know if I shall ever live there permanently again, but there are places to which I’ll want to return – and which, in the August of this waning summer, I wish to share with you.

Christendom in California ….