40 Days for Life activists challenged to heal, rather than fight culture at national...
Praying in front of an abortion center around the clock for 40 days straight might seem a daunting endeavor, but pro-life leaders from around the world organize the vigils twice each year.
Back to school season brings double dose of ‘firsts’ for Our Lady of the...
Campus leaders plan to add one grade level each year until the current first-graders enter eighth grade.
African priests strengthen U.S. church
Thirty African priests — among them 13 from various orders — are spread out in parishes throughout the Diocese of Phoenix alone with others filling priest shortages in the church nationwide.
USCCB national pro-life conference calls leaders to be missionary disciples
More than 100 diocesan, state and national pro-life leaders from across the U.S. networked in Phoenix this summer.
‘It’s (another) boy’ for Maggie’s Place, but first partnership with Catholic Charities
The Gerard House opened Aug. 1 in Phoenix’s Sunnyslope area as the third “boy” in the Maggie’s Place family, but with some easily distinguishable features.
Bishops ‘shamed’ by ‘sins, omissions’ of priests, bishops leading to abuse
The prelates' joint statement was issued in response to the release the same day of a grand jury report based on a months-long investigation into sexual abuse claims in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
Schools resume their mission to graduate scholars heaven-bound
Families who choose to send their child to a Catholic school have extra partners in their quest to save their child’s soul for eternal life.
St. John Paul II High School set to bring a new opportunity for Catholic...
Veronica Esparza, whose son attended public school because the family could not fit a drive to central Phoenix into their schedule, will now be able to send her daughter, Thalia, 14, to the new St. John Paul II Catholic High School for her freshman year after attending elementary school at their home parish of St. John Vianney in Goodyear.
USCCB President explains plan to address ‘moral catastrophe’ of abuse
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Aug. 16 announced three key goals and a comprehensive plan to address the “moral catastrophe” of the new abuse scandal hitting the U.S. Church.
Phoenix bishops call for days of prayer, fasting in response to abuse
In the aftermath of revelations surrounding Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and the newly released grand jury report on six Pennsylvania dioceses, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares called for a day of fasting and prayer Aug. 22, the feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Aug. 22, the feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
