The 58th Annual Study Week for the Southwest Liturgical Conference (SWLC), with the theme “Go in Peace, Glorifying the Lord by your Life,” will be held Jan. 15-18 at the DoubleTree Hotel at Reid Park.
I hope all of us are planning a grand Thanksgiving filled with the love and laughter with our family and friends. I also hope you will consider attending Mass on this day that we gather to remember the goodness God has provided us with throughout the year.
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Tucson, received the “The Archbishop Pietro Sambi ‘Star of Bethlehem’ Award for Services to the Bethlehem University Foundation” in recognition of his support of Bethlehem University.
National Catholic Youth Conference Thursday I will head out to Illinois for my third trip to the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC). I will be flying out to the conference with Joe Perdreauville, who is our Assistant Director for Pastoral Services and a board member for the NCYC, and several students from Salpointe Catholic High School and St. Patrick’s Parish in Bisbee.
In a high-stakes issue before the Supreme Court Nov. 12, it was not clear how the justices will ultimately resolve the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
Capuchin Father Robert Kose leaned over to touch a bloom that had just peeked out in the back yard at Casa San Jose, realizing he would never see it fully blossom.
This week, Nov. 3 -9, is National Vocations Awareness Week. Please take a moment to pray for our seminarians, priests and religious. Coming up: Fall national bishops conference I will be attending the Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) next week in Baltimore, Maryland. Here is the Catholic News Service story previewing this event.
Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger presided over the Seventh Annual Red and Blue Mass, a liturgy recognizing the legal community and law enforcement, Oct. 1 at St. Augustine Cathedral.
“We were just ordinary people trying to do extraordinary things,” said Sister Barbara Donahue, of the Sisters for Christian Community, looking back on memorabilia from her childhood when she and her siblings formed the vaudeville troupe “Nine Dancing Donahues.”
Colonial and later US policies toward Native American communities were often violent, paternalistic and directed toward the theft of Native American land.