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“If they ever tried to come into our church packed with parishioners it will go bad for them because people will not tolerate that,” he said.

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.