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We are blessed here in Los Angeles with having Archbishop Gomez as a spiritual leader who took on this call from Pope Francis, forming our Office of Life, Justice and Peace so that we can honor all human life: the unborn, the immigrant, our brothers and sisters suffering from homelessness, our elderly and the sick and dying.

Joe Gomez and Jarell Quansah's futures at Anfield could also impact Liverpool's level of interest in Huijsen.

Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez and the late Pope Francis assumed their positions two years apart.

Both were pioneering Latinos — Gomez became the first Mexican-born head of the largest U.S. archdiocese in 2011, and Francis became the first pontiff from the Americas in 2013.

Both inherited messes left by their predecessors — Gomez needed to right his L.A. see after decades of sex abuse scandals under Cardinal Roger Mahony, and Francis had to figure out how to rule in the shadow of Benedict XVI, the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years.