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Bishop Weisenburger offers his thoughts on his visit to the Vatican and meeting Pope Francis

For years, Diocesan and Cathedral Music Director Carlos Zapien has been known as a talented singer, a gifted musician and skilled composer. Late last year, he added the title “published artist” to the list.

Two services are scheduled. The first will take place in Nogales, Arizona at Sacred Heard of Jesus Parish. The second will take place at St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson. Both will happen on Feb. 11.

The Diocese of Tucson and other faith denominations have been asked by the US Census Bureau to help promote the census beginning April 1.

The last time Bishop Weisenburger attended an ad limina was in 2012 with Pope Benedict

Msgr. Domenico Pinti, pastor of St. George’s in Apache Junction and diocesan Vicar for Life, poses with members of the Knights of Columbus waiting for the march to begin.

The final keynote of the Study Week was given by Boston College professor Hosffman Ospino, one of the foremost experts on the growth of the Hispanic presence in the US church and culture.

More than 150 attended the 16th Annual Mass and Dinner with the Bishop at Skyline Country Club, Tucson, sponsored Jan. 12 by the Msgr. Don H. Hughes Assembly 2392 of the Knights of Columbus.

Worship spaces can be contrary and contradictory, but they perfectly reflect who we are as a Church, said Deacon Owen Cummings in his address “Worship and the Catholic Imagination: The Church as Sacred Space.”

Posada takes on somber tone at Douglas border fence.

Theology professor, author and priest from the Diocese of Austin, Texas, Father Leon Strieder offered a different view of evangelization in his workshop “Evangelization Misunderstood.”

Catholic Schools Day About 150 students and parents from Catholic schools in the Diocese of Tucson attended the annual day at the state Capitol. Members of the Arizona Catholic Conference were meeting yesterday and today, and we bishops all were able to celebrate morning Mass at SS. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix in support of our students and teachers and all those who volunteer or work closely with the schools, including pastors with parishes that also have schools.

The event ended at the new new site of Kino Border Initiatives’ comedor.

Rita Thiron, the executive director of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions said in her keynote, “God’s Message is Made Known in Word and Deed,” that bringing new inquirers into the Church has to be seen as a responsibility of the parish community, not simply the parish RCIA ministry or the pastor.

The Annual Catholic Appeal for 2020 started with a series of trainings for clergy and parish staff.

The 2020 Annual Catholic Appeal kicked off the weekend of Jan. 25-26.

Editor's note: Beginning with this story, and the four to follow, the Catholic Outlook will recount some of the keynotes and workshops from the Southwest Liturgical Conference Study Week Jan. 15-18.

As the world mourned the loss of basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others killed in a tragic helicopter crash Jan. 26, ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and has appointed Bishop Nelson J. Perez of Cleveland as his successor.

WASHINGTON — Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has issued the following statement to mark the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 20, 2020.