First graduating class begins final year at Annunciation Catholic School
The newest school in the Diocese of Phoenix now has its first graduating class in the waiting. Two of the 12 eighth-graders at Annunciation Catholic School in Cave Creek have been there since its doors opened on the St. Gabriel Parish campus in 2009. They were second-graders at the time and huddled around their principal in a small circle — with first-graders too — for opening prayer.
Priest finds frustrations build among Christians in Iraq camp
A Syriac Catholic priest ministers to more than 1,700 predominantly Syriac Catholic families who occupy a part of the refugee camp at Ankawa, near the Kurdish capital of Irbil, which has become known as the "Youth Center" since the Islamic State overran an Iraqi town nearly a year ago.
In Detroit, families begin to see Sundays as a day of rest, togetherness
The material, available for free online, focuses largely on family dialogue, giving families a chance to digest the material together and bounce ideas off each other.
Penitential path: Theologians discuss promise, pitfalls of process
The church must do something to present more clearly its teaching on marriage; it must do more to help young couples prepare for marriage; it must be more effective in helping couples in trouble; and it must reach out to those who divorced and remarried without an annulment, theologians and canon lawyers say.
NASA flight director says faith, family have marked his life’s journey
"Whenever there is a fork in the road and a major decision, it's always part of God's plan," he said.
Annual Rosary Celebration marks diocesan jubilee by honoring patroness
Arizona faithful honor the Blessed Mother every year under a different title. Appropriately, Phoenix-area Catholics did so under Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Pope prays for coronavirus victims at live broadcast of morning Mass
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During a live broadcast of his daily morning Mass, Pope Francis prayed for victims of the coronavirus epidemic and the many health care workers fighting its spread.
Christ Was Born for This
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Here is a Christmas homily titled “Christ Was Born For This” by Archbishop J. Augustine DiNoia, adjunct secretary of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. A Dominican, he taught theology for many years at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington.
Vatican releases details of pope’s July 5-12 visit to South America
Pope Francis' July 5-12 visit to Latin America will not take him to his native Argentina, but it will put him closely in touch with his Jesuit roots and with one of the main characteristics of his ministry as archbishop of Buenos Aires: direct contact with the poor, the sick and those striving to bring the Gospel to bear on social inequalities.
Vatican cardinal talks about guidelines for priests who father children
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When the Vatican Congregation for Clergy developed guidelines a decade ago for handling cases of priests who father children, the first objective was to make it easier for those men to leave the priesthood to care for their children and be real dads, said the prefect of the congregation.
