lent - search results
If you're not happy with the results, please do another search
St. Paul loses retired pastor as diocese’s Emerald Isle connection fades
The time has come to return a gift on loan from Ireland and the Diocese of Tucson nearly 50 years ago.
Silence is Christ’s response to lies, divisiveness, pope says at Mass
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus himself showed that the best way to respond to scandal and divisiveness is to stay silent and pray, Pope Francis said Sept. 3 as he resumed his early morning Masses with invited guests.
Why the church law forbids violating the seal of confession
The "secret" nature of the sacrament of penance reflects and respects the intimate, personal encounter between God and the individual. The priest who hears confession is present "exclusively in the name and place of God," not of himself, a regent of a Vatican court said.
Fr. Greg Rice, MHM (1939-2018), brought missionary zeal to Native American community, beyond
His call to priesthood began in the Middle Eastern desert. His final ministerial years culminated in a southwestern one.
St. Mary’s High School nurtures rich seedbed of religious vocations
If a seed grows in fertile soil, then St. Mary’s Catholic School has rich earth and is reaping a great religious harvest.
Sr. Christine Gilsenan, IBVM, brought music, art to decades of ‘Irish’ children
The Ss. Simon and Jude School community lost a wee bit of its authentic Irish heritage this summer.
Plucky priests prevail in persistent pace to part with prize … again
The Fourth Annual John Paul II Classic pitted the Church Fathers — priests of the Phoenix Diocese — against the more youthful Phoenix Sons — seminarians decked out in orange jerseys.
Pope greets Irish people via video ahead of visit, to meet with abuse survivors
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As he prepared to travel to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, Pope Francis said he hoped his visit would “remind us all of the essential place of the family in the life of society and in the building of a better future for today’s young people.”
Pope: Abuse victims’ outcry more powerful than efforts to silence them
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “No effort must be spared” to prevent future cases of clerical sexual abuse and “to prevent the possibility of their being covered up,” Pope Francis said in a letter addressed “to the people of God.”
Phoenix bishops call for days of prayer, fasting in response to abuse
In the aftermath of revelations surrounding Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and the newly released grand jury report on six Pennsylvania dioceses, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares called for a day of fasting and prayer Aug. 22, the feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Aug. 22, the feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
