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INDIANAPOLIS — Author and speaker, Sarah Swafford stood before a crowd of 10,000 Catholic college women. She pointed to a screen that listed the most common struggles that individuals face, ranging from loneliness to self-hatred.

A visiting archbishop urged members of Arizona’s legal profession and state legislators to uphold the right of religious freedom during the annual Diocese of Phoenix Red Mass sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society Jan. 14 at St. Mary’s Basilica.

These students are not the future of the Church, they ARE the Church. This school is providing the opportunity to let them know they have a place in the Church and can make decisions that support and promote the mission of the Church.

Some 37 percent of students came from public schools with at least one having never gone to a private school. And he has never looked back.

Just as Jesus transformed the water into wine at Cana, Jesus can transform our ministry, refill us and give us new hope despite the challenges we face in the pro-life movement, said Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted.

One of the more visible signs of the campaign's fruit is a new high school, which is now in its second semester. Groundbreaking for the campus was two years ago this month.

He served the bulk of his diaconal ministry at St. Margaret Mary in Bullhead City.

Dcn. Lopez spent his entire diaconate at Our Lady of the Lake serving alongside three classmates.

St. Vincent de Paul serves as one of the "primary co-educators of our students and allow our students real opportunities to put their faith into action, and into context,” said Will Rutt, director of Ignatian Service, calling SVdP’s partnership invaluable.

In his new apostolic exhortation, “Complete My Joy,” Bishop Olmsted hoped to reach all husbands and wives and mothers and fathers throughout the Diocese of Phoenix, calling them to lead their families to holiness.