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.
Campaign fortifies St. Margaret’s facilities, parish community
Tucked away in Tempe, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Parish spent 14 years without a pastor. These days, the burgeoning church is home to roughly 2,500 families who worship the Lord mostly in Spanish. Now, they have a leader and he’s challenged them to step out in faith.
‘Watering down’ Church teaching won’t attract young people, cardinal says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just because some young people disagree with Catholic moral teaching, including in the area of sexuality, does not mean the Church’s teachings are unclear or should change, Cardinal Robert Sarah told the Synod of Bishops.
El Salvador celebrates its first saint, whose legacy continues
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) — Near the end of his homily at a Mass just prior to St. Oscar Romero’s canonization, Jesuit Father Jose Maria Tojeira yelled to the crowd outside the Metropolitan Cathedral: “¡Viva Monsenor Romero! (Long live Archishop Romero!)”
Saints risk all for love of Jesus, pope says at canonization Mass
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Carrying Pope Paul VI’s pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognized them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church.
How Paul VI influenced one young man who now leads his home diocese
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — His voice, his outstretched hands, his boarding an airplane to meet the world — those are some of the most striking things about Blessed Paul VI that moved and inspired a young man discerning the priesthood.
Pope accepts Cardinal Wuerl’s resignation
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl as archbishop of Washington but did not name a successor.
‘Humanae Vitae’ a gift from Blessed Paul VI, says visiting bishop
FLAGSTAFF — Pope Paul VI gave to the world a beautiful gift in 1968, “and the gift he gave us was ‘Humane Vitae,’” said Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, during a Sept. 15 presentation of “The Wisdom of Pope Paul VI” at San Francisco de Asís.
From Ohio to Kenya, Glenmary brother trots globe in search of vocations
CINCINNATI (CNS) — God’s ability to call vocations isn’t limited by geography, and so a vocation director must go wherever the Holy Spirit leads.
