Last updated on February 22nd, 2023 at 08:54 am<\/p>\n
On Saturday Bishop David O’Connell of the Diocese of Los Angeles was found dead in his home right before 1 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department ruled out suicide, and is currently treating the case as a homicide. The Bishop’s housekeeper’s husband has been arrested in connection with the homicide, but he has not been convicted. Bishop O’Connell was well known as a strong pro-life leader, often attending and supporting prayer groups outside of Los Angeles abortion mills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am very sad this afternoon to report that our beloved Auxiliary Bishop David O\u2019Connell has passed away unexpectedly,\u201d the Archbishop of L.A. Jos\u00e9 H. Gomez wrote on the death of O\u2019Connell. \u201cIt is a shock and I have no words to express my sadness.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs a priest and later a bishop here in Los Angeles for forty-five years, Bishop Dave was a man of deep prayer who had a great love for Our Blessed Mother,\u201d Gomez stated, adding that O\u2019Connell \u201cwas a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Bishop O’Connell, a man of God.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday Bishop David O’Connell of the Diocese of Los Angeles was found dead in his home right before 1 P.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":183835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"Bishop O'Connell dead by apparent homicide","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"808"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[805,808],"tags":[6512,720,909],"class_list":["post-183831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreground","category-life","tag-bishops","tag-catholic-church","tag-pro-life-2"],"yoast_head":"\n