Advent tradition takes Phoenix Catholics to Navajo Nation
The Church is already halfway through Advent, the first season of the new liturgical year, a time to prepare to welcome anew the infant Jesus at Christmastime as well as His promised second coming.
Pre-New Year’s conference calls young men to step ‘Into the Breach’
Attention young men (high school and college): Finish 2016 strengthened in your resolve to be a warrior for Christ.
Following ‘Plan of God’ brings sisters from Peru to Arizona
The young sisters will partner with St. Paul's Outreach to serve students at Arizona State University plus nourish parish life at nearby Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Mercy is greater than any evil, says bishop at Mass of Healing and Reconciliation
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted prayed with tearful victims of abuse, other laity who came in support, along with roughly 10 priests and deacons from the diocese who concelebrated and assisted at the Mass.
Jubilee ends, mercy continues
Despite the close of the latest jubilee year, the door of mercy within the heart remains wide open, and Catholics in the Diocese of Phoenix are committed to bestowing and receiving it.
Fr. Kurgan, O. Carmelite (1938-2016), supported diocese’s early years
The Order of Carmelites and St. Agnes Parish are among those across Arizona who spent Thanksgiving Eve offering gratitude for the life of Fr. Charles Kurgan.
Faith extravaganza floods streets of downtown Phoenix
In an outpouring of unabashed affection for Our Lady of Guadalupe, hundreds of Catholics from every corner of the Diocese of Phoenix descended on the downtown area Dec. 3 for a day of festivities, fanfare, food, and most of all, faith.
‘Tis the season, and Bethlehem businesses hope for a merry one
After two Christmas seasons in which the political reality had overtaken holiday cheer, people seemed primed to finally feel some merriment in Bethlehem.
USCCB leaders seek prayers for migrants, refugees on Guadalupe feast
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the Americas — both North and South — and patroness of the Diocese of Phoenix, which serves Catholics from both continents.
Fr. Stanley Rother: the first US-born martyr
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City who served in Guatemala, making him the first martyr to have been born in the United States.
