LOCAL NEWS

Of the more than 1,000 organizations that hosted blood drives throughout Arizona last year, three parishes from the Diocese of Phoenix emerged among the top three percent.

Men and women have vital, but unique roles in God’s plan for salvation. That’s why local Catholic leaders organize conferences aimed at each of them.

These 40 days prior to Easter are a time for Christians to sit with the messiness of life and then transform it through the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

Funeral services were held Feb. 6 for Deacon Gregory Edward Galloway who passed away peacefully Jan. 28. He was 59.

Music is a vital part of the heavily Christian, tiny island of Tonga. Children throughout the Diocese of Phoenix make up half the choir and lead the prayers of the faithful during the monthly Tongan Mass in Tempe.

Una “Misa para Migrantes” que tomará lugar el 20 de febrero destacará la situación de los migrantes que han muerto en el desierto, buscando un camino para salir de la pobreza y la violencia que azota México y América Central.

They come in search of a better life, but hundreds perish in the rugged desert near the U.S.-Mexico border every year.

Arizona’s favorite ruler-wielding nun, Sister, is back in the habit and awaiting students to take their seats in one of her three "classes."

Saying their letters had touched his heart, Pope Francis wrote a personal response encouraging teens in southern Arizona in their work aiding migrants.

What would it take to end abortion? One of the co-founders of 40 Days for Life will address that and more Feb. 16 at St. Mary’s Basilica.