Legislative seminar warns of looming threats, calls on Catholics to be informed, vote in...
Talks given at the Diocesan Pastoral Center after the Mass and breakfast zeroed in on religious freedom, rights of conscience and the latest developments in transgender politics vis-a-vis Church teaching.
Bishop to ordain six deacons
Six men from throughout the diocese are spending their final days as laypeople. Beginning with their Nov. 3 ordination at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, they will forever be known as “deacon.”
Profiles in Mission: María and Mauricio Avalos
We moved to Arizona in 2003 so as soon as we got here, we started searching for a parish. When we went to St. Margaret’s it just felt like a church in Mexico. It felt like home.
Valley faithful venerate relics of St. Padre Pio
Nancy Rossiello recalls her days as a girl in San Giovanni Rotundo, the small southern Italian town and home to the monastery where St. Pio of Pietrelcina, OFM Cap., served God.
No byline, but author’s tea room menu has faith written all over it
It’s beyond tea. “We’re serving their soul in some way.”
Xavier teacher carves corpus of Christ
“The only time I got cut, I was carving the crown of thorns," said Nathan Ward, art teacher.
Diocese follows guidelines to ensure dying live their faith in their final days
When Carol Pavlak’s 90-year-old father was nearing his final weeks of life, she knew just where she wanted to turn for the last days he would spend on earth.
Church’s canon law experts convene in Phoenix
They hailed from a good 45 U.S. states plus its law-making city, five countries and, of course, Vatican City. Church law should exhibit prudent consultation, heeding the voice of God which resounds in the conscience, one keynote speaker said.
Parish, chancery life now fading memory as Fr. Diskin retires
"Fr. Diskin had a unique way of putting things into perspective and offering people possible solutions to the issues they were struggling with,” MAria Chavira, chancellor, said of her assistant counterpart.
New website invites feedback on current crisis
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and the Diocese of Phoenix launched a new website this month to help local Catholics share their thoughts about the scandals surrounding the Church and what they think its impact has been on their faith.
