Parish collaboration offers families new hope
Parishioners around the Diocese of Phoenix reached out to assist the homeless during December and found creative ways to share the joy and warmth of the Christmas season.
Sr. Dorothy Stang, modern day martyr, to be remembered
A modern-day martyr once served in the Diocese of Phoenix and a special Mass will celebrate her legacy.
New York’s French community offers prayers for victims of Paris attacks
New York's French Catholic community offered solemn prayers for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris at an otherwise-joyful family Mass.
Dominican sister chosen to lead Catholic Charities USA
Dominican Sister Donna Markham has been chosen to succeed Father Larry Snyder as the new president of Catholic Charities USA.
Father Morris leaves helm of Sirius XM’s Catholic Channel
Father Jonathan Morris, program director and talk-show host for the Catholic Channel on the Sirius XM satellite radio platform, has left the station.
At baptisms, pope urges prayers for moms who can’t feed their kids
As Pope Francis once again urged new moms not to be afraid to breast-feed in public, he reminded people to pray for the world's mothers whose poverty means they are unable to provide enough food for their children.
Man who tried to kill John Paul II takes flowers to his tomb
Exactly 31 years after St. John Paul II personally forgave him for shooting and trying to assassinate him, Mehmet Ali Agca returned to the Vatican with a bunch of white roses and laid them at the late pope's tomb.
Abandoned, disabled Haitian children baptized into the Christian family
Found unclothed, nonverbal, and malnourished roaming in a cemetery in 2010, Patrick was taken to the General Hospital of Port-au-Prince, where he was nursed to good health. But, despite the care and because of the pervasive influence of the practice of voodoo, Patrick was chained to a radiator every night out of fear he would jump out of a window.
New deacon formation cohort announced
Bishop Thomas Olmsted has endorsed the establishment of a new Diaconal Formation Cohort.
Pope warns Vatican officials of ‘spiritual Alzheimer’s,’ other ills
Pope Francis' Christmas greeting to the Vatican bureaucracy this year was an extended warning against a host of spiritual ills to which he said Vatican officials are prone, including "spiritual Alzheimer's," "existential schizophrenia," publicity-seeking, the "terrorism of gossip" and even a poor sense of humor.
