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Students at Notre Dame Preparatory High School may have had to wait almost the whole school year to meet Most Rev. John P. Dolan, fifth bishop of Phoenix, but his arrival on campus offered a special opportunity for attendees.

Local photographer Joseph Pillado brought @PhoenixDiocese followers along on a Holy Thursday pilgrimage to pray with Jesus before seven altars of repose.

Bishop John Dolan celebrated a joyous Easter Sunday Mass at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, his first as bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix.

Nearly 30 people, one of the highest numbers for the parish in recent years, received their sacraments at the Easter Vigil Mass at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Ahwatukee on Saturday evening along with hundreds of other converts across the state.

The Vía Crucis Viviente ministry at Christ the King Parish in Mesa prayerfully presented a live reenactment of the stations of the cross on Good Friday, April 7.

Hundreds of students and other members of the Arizona State University Newman Center community gathered in honor of Christ's passion this Good Friday.

Priests from throughout the Diocese of Phoenix flocked to Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral for the annual Chrism Mass with Bishop John P. Dolan presiding. The annual Mass draws a crowd to witness the bishop blessing the oils that will be used throughout the year in sacramental celebrations such as Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick and Holy Orders.

Bishop Dolan returned to the West Valley on Wednesday, as he toured Saint John Paul II High School and celebrated Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas, where he was installed August 2, 2022.

A record number of participants took part in the 14th Annual Desert Nun Run on Saturday at Kiwanis Park in Tempe. The event serves as a fundraiser to support Our Lady of Solitude Monastery and the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in the Diocese of Phoenix. 

Over 700 people gathered March 2 to celebrate and raise funds for the John Paul II Resource Center for Theology of the Body and Culture.