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      Students, faculty and administrators at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Tempe will never forget this Christmas. The school’s seventh and eighth graders provided each one of them with a handmade keepsake ornament before the Christmas break. The annual tradition started last year.

I got my Maggie’s Place newsletter, the Delivery Room, in the mail over the weekend. I can’t remember if it’s a monthly thing or a quarterly publication, but the “Christmas 2008″ issue made me feel a little bit better about a couple of things. First, it made me realize that I’m not the only one [...]

  Stephanie Preach, a setter for the Xavier College Preparatory varsity volleyball team, was recently named as Gatorade’s Arizona Volleyball Player of the Year. The 5-foot-8 junior recorded 983 assists and 253 kills along with a .437 hitting percentage this season according to a Xavier press release. It was that performance that helped the team [...]

Last week, the Minnesota Catholic bishops asked Catholics throughout the state to renew their commitment to welcoming newcomers. The bishops’ statement, issue on Dec. 12, came on the two year anniversary of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid of the Swift and Co. meatpacking plant in Worthington, Minn. The joint statement also called for comprehensive [...]

The current economic strife could lead Christians to a fuller understanding of the birth of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said. “The Word became flesh to offer humanity the salvation which can only be received as a gracious gift from God,” he said during his Dec. 17 General Audience. “In the Christ Child, God humbly knocks [...]