Jesuit schools join faith-based voices on immigration, environment
With the U.S. Capitol at his back, Darian Benitez Sanchez Nov. 8 told the story of how his father used to take him to high school math competitions on weekends in Arizona, where he attended the Jesuit-run Brophy College Preparatory high school, and how his dad would wait hours for him inside a locked car.
‘Go to Joseph:’ ‘Gateway to the Grand Canyon’ parish hosting pilgrims through May 2022
About 5 million tourists pass through this small town just west of Flagstaff known as the “Gateway to the Grand Canyon,” with its other claim to fame being the last city on the Historic Route 66 to be bypassed by Interstate 40. But for one more month, Catholic tourists, among others, can also be pilgrims.
Conversion of Heart: Discipleship and evangelization efforts lead to encounters with Christ
Bishop Olmsted reflects on how forming new relationships with his brother priests and lay Catholic families helped him "turn within"
Veterans thanked, honored at annual ‘Red, White and Blue’ Mass
SUN CITY WEST, Ariz. — As a servicemember in the Vietnam War, Bill Ranzinger experienced loss. The deaths of comrades who didn’t make it...
‘Praying works,’ Planned Parenthood whistleblower tells Glendale pro-life rally
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Pro-life supporters returned recently to the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Glendale — a site where Bishop Thomas J....
Phoenix diocesan communications director is new CMA executive director
Rob DeFrancesco, communications director for the Diocese of Phoenix, said he was "eager to work" with the staff of the Catholic Media Association as the Chicago-based organization's new executive director.
A celebration for the Masses as Cathedral parishioners join bishop, rector for grand reopening
The diocesan cathedral opened her doors Sunday for the first time in six months, unveiling a lighter, brighter, fresher look after the first major renovation in its 55-year history.
E3 Africa provides Ugandan orphans with education, shelter
Half a world away, the heartrending plight of orphaned and impoverished children in Uganda has moved an American bishop and hundreds of faithful to action.
St. John Paul II admired founders’ vision of freedom, says author
Ahead of St. John Paul II’s Oct. 22 feast day, journalist and author Patrick Novecosky reflected on the late pontiff’s impact on the United States during a presentation Oct. 19 at St. Andrew the Apostle Parish.
We need to see the face of Christ in immigrants, says Phoenix bishop
One family fled cartel violence in their small town in Zacatecas, Mexico. Another fled Honduras after the coronavirus pandemic and tropical storms decimated their business and left them impoverished.
