Verde Villas community models housing projects for Catholic Charities
Desert Willow, a 57-unit complex in Tempe near St. Margaret Parish and the light rail, is poised to be a similar effort, and will celebrate a grand opening Sept. 27.
Classroom projects help St. Thomas the Apostle students form servant hearts
Nora Hinkle recalled the look of amazement on the faces of her new friends with Down syndrome when her class hosted a group from the Down Syndrome Network of Arizona at the school’s Feb. 28 carnival.
Women’s conference aims to foster friendships with saints, embrace femininity
Catholic Women of Phoenix and its upcoming conference’s keynote speaker have a mutual friend: their patron saint, St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein.
Bishop Olmsted challenges Catholics to be ‘missionaries of mercy’ in State of the Church...
This year the bishop zeroed in on who it is Christ calls the faithful to be.
Cardinal DiNardo, USCCB president, ‘resting comfortably’ after suffering mild stroke
HOUSTON (CNS) — Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was taken to the hospital late March 15 after experiencing symptoms of what tests March 16 confirmed was a mild stroke, according to an archdiocesan statement.
Final public Mass, tears mark closing of Poor Clare monastery in Memphis
Franciscan sisters have prayed there for 87 years. The four remaining sisters will transfer to two other Poor Clare communities.
Serve people, not ideology, pope tells Cubans at Havana Mass
HAVANA (CNS) — As Cubans finally face the prospects of calmer relationships and greater ease of communication and commerce with the United States, Pope Francis told the Cuban people that love and service, not anyone’s ideology, are the keys to their happiness.
Priest offers Mass daily at destroyed West Bank olive orchards
A dump truck rumbles by, kicking up dust, just a few feet away from where the priest has set up his makeshift altar: a small table covered by a white cloth with three olive tree saplings at its base.
Hundreds express desire to become Catholic at Rite of Election
Becoming Catholic doesn’t mean that life’s battles will cease. The newly baptized and confirmed will have some strong partners on their side though.
National pro-life leaders fear health care rationing
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — An Obama administration proposal to pay doctors for “advance care planning” for Medicare patients is fraught with dangers for the...
