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  We’re midway through coverage of graduation season at local Catholic high schools. I attended one Baccaleaureate Mass and two graduations. The Catholic Sun also interviewed at least one student from all six Catholic high schools in the Valley (look for coverage in our June 4 issue and on YouTube).  While I was at some [...]

WASHINGTON — Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, praised President Barack Obama’s promise to support conscience clauses. “Caring health professionals and institutions should know that their deeply held religious or moral convictions will be respected as they exercise their right to serve patients in need,” Cardinal Francis [...]

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has 16 thrift stores throughout most of the state. Each one is a place where both people in need and the general public can find bargains on clothes, furniture and household items. This weekend enjoy a 20 percent storewide sale at the Bell Road location in honor of [...]

  Still deciding which Catholic school to choose? (See related entry). Here’s one more for some of you to consider.  The Catholic Schools Office for the Diocese of Phoenix announced open enrollment at Annunciation Catholic School yesterday. The K-8 elementary school will open at St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Cave Creek in August. First [...]

  Most kindergarteners and first graders spend their school days mastering the skill of reading and writing in English. Students at St. Matthew School will soon do the same in Spanish as well. They’ll be the first in the diocese to experience dual-language learning next year and St. Matthew is holding open enrollment for interested [...]