Seton’s state champion basketball team heads to national tournament
The tournament provides a platform for top nationally ranked high school basketball teams to play one another.
Music programs in diocesan schools hit all the right notes
Music education remains a budgeted item at local Catholic schools thanks to a longstanding donor who believes in its power and to administrators who feel the same way.
Men in the Breach: Michael Rock, M.D., advises pro-life clinics, terminally ill as ‘Guardian of Faith’
Dr. Michael Rock has been standing in the breach for decades, defending the unborn and fighting to protect the lives of the elderly and infirm. He recently received the Guardian of Faith award from the National Catholic Medical Association, an organization he’s been active in for years and was president of in the late 1990s.
Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN, dies after long illness
Feisty and outspoken, she was a major controversial figure in the U.S. church in the closing decades of the 20th century with a ready calling card at the Vatican.
University of Mary to hold first vocations jamboree
The jamboree is a four-pronged partnership among a university, a diocese, a monastery and an abbey.
Moms’ group delivers Holy Week happiness to area children
A group of Ahwatukee moms brought some early Easter joy to children whose mothers or other caretakers struggle to provide.
Good Friday Rosary at Planned Parenthood draws 350 to pray, defend life
GLENDALE ― As the faithful across the Diocese of Phoenix called to mind the suffering endured by Christ on the day of His crucifixion, hundreds gathered for the annual Good Friday Rosary outside a local Planned Parenthood. Glendale police estimated the crowd at 350.
Beloved baseball hall-of-famer, philanthropist Joe Garagiola dies at 90
PHOENIX (CNS) — Baseball legend and popular sports broadcaster Joe Garagiola, who died March 23 at age 90, was a lifelong Catholic who was a tireless advocate for the poor in Arizona.
Way of Cross an especially strong Lenten tradition in migrant communities
Many of the 400 participants in one town last year were day laborers who sacrificed daily wages to attend.
Chrism Mass: Sacred oils blessed, sacred promises renewed
The bilingual liturgy draws hundreds to witness the blessing of the oils that will be used in the Church’s sacramental celebrations such as Confirmation, Ordination, Anointing of the Sick and Baptism.
