Watch the 2024 Red Mass Recording
If you were unable to attend the Red Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels, we invite you to view the celebration online below.
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Fr. Gregory Joseph Boyle, S.J.
Homilist
Fr. Gregory Boyle, S.J. will be our Homilist for the 42nd Annual Red Mass in Los Angeles on October 23, 2024. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Fr. Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.
In 1986, Fr. Boyle became pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, which at the time was the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles and had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city.
Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl
Closing Speaker
Judge Carolyn Kuhl presides in a Complex Civil Litigation Department of the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles. She previously served as the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2015 and 2016; as Assistant Presiding Judge in 2013 and 2014; and as Supervising Judge of the Civil Departments from 2011 to 2012 and from 2003 to 2004. She was a founding judge of the Complex Civil Litigation Program and has served as a judge in that program for more than 10 years. She served on the California Judicial Council, the policy-making body for the California state court system, from 2006 through 2009.