The Catholic Sun

'Spirit' is an understatement in the latest Catholic school showcase.

Fr. Griffith's involvement in the “Serenity Retreat” movement was legendary as was his also instrumental bringing many other clergy and laity to sobriety and healing.

Beauty in art has the power to inspire and can bring people closer to the Divine Artist. That was the message that directors from chapters of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums heard when they attended their international conference in Phoenix March 3–5.

The biblical St. Joseph is "a man who doesn't speak but obeys, a man of tenderness, a man capable of fulfilling his promises so that they become solid, secure," he said.

"Crosiers make clear why we live and, because of that, how to live," Fr. Louis Mraz once wrote. He emulated a faithful life in Indonesia and the Diocese of Phoenix.

Like most people who experience and recover from homelessness, Donald Brizedine is focused on the future.

St. Patrick's modern-day successor as archbishop of Armagh used his message for the March 17 feast to recall that St. Patrick was first brought to Ireland as a slave by traffickers.

Lent has 40 days with which to enter purposeful suffering and other spiritual disciplines. The end result creates a heart that’s better equipped to embrace the crosses of life like Simon of Cyrene, confident in recognizing the truths of the faith like Veronica or eager to spread it like St. Mary Magdalene did on Easter morning.

Catholic schools play an important role in the New Evangelization, wrote Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted in his new apostolic letter, Evangelizing through Catholic Schools, promulgated on March 3 of this year.

Sr. Teresita Ryan spent nearly 99 years strengthening the Church on earth, most notably in her native Ireland, Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix and surrounding communities.