Marino brings fresh vision, verve to Catholic Education Arizona
Donna Marino, the new president and CEO of Catholic Education Arizona, came upon her career leading non-profit organizations quite by grace.
Wake up the World: Q&A with Fr. Bradley Peterson, O.Carm
Fr. Bradley Peterson is a priest of the Carmelite Order, founded 800 years ago on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. He came to Arizona as a teenager and has been pastor of St. Agnes Parish since 2009. The central Phoenix church is home to some 1,600 families.
Repent and believe: Lent calls Catholics to grow in their relationship with God
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.
Return with tears to God’s loving embrace during Lent, pope says
Lent is a journey of purification and penance, a movement that should bring one tearfully back to the loving arms of the merciful Father, Pope Francis said at an Ash Wednesday Mass that began with a procession on Rome's Aventine Hill.
Pope urges cardinals to go in search of the lost, bring them in
The Catholic Church cannot call itself church if it is a "closed caste" where the sick, the wounded and sinners are shunned, Pope Francis told the 20 new cardinals he created.
Catholics urged to remember ‘common good’ in vaccine debate
A nationwide measles outbreak that began at an amusement park in Southern California has fostered an ongoing debate about people's social obligation to have themselves and their children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella and other diseases.
Decade after assassination of Sister Dorothy Stang, work remains risky
In the 10 years since U.S.-born Sr. Dorothy Stang was killed by ranchers in the Amazon, the risks have not decreased with 106 people assassinated due to land conflicts in Para state alone, said one of the coordinators of the Brazilian bishops' Pastoral Land Commission.
Feb. 20 ‘Mass for Migrants’ to highlight tragic border deaths
They come in search of a better life, but hundreds perish in the rugged desert near the U.S.-Mexico border every year.
St. Vincent de Paul program aids ex-prisoners’ re-entry into society
Many prisoners, once released, are poorly equipped to shake off the conditions that led them to commit the crimes which put them in jail in the first place. A two-year-old program in five states is changing that.
Pope, in letter to Arizona teens, encourages them in work with migrants
Saying their letters had touched his heart, Pope Francis wrote a personal response encouraging teens in southern Arizona in their work aiding migrants.
