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To mark the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, the Natural Family Planning Program of the US Bishops’ Office set aside July 19-25 as Natural Family Planning Awareness Week. The encyclical articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, conjugal love and responsible parenthood. The dates also mark the feast of Ss. Joachim and Anne (July [...]

Living in today’s hi-tech world, I found it interesting that the term “low-power’ made recent headlines. Call-in day to support low-power radio is set for tomorrow according to a CNS story. The call-ins will be to members of the Senate advocating the Local Community Radio Act of 2009. Arizona Senator John McCain is a co-sponsor. [...]

Eleven years ago, David Emigh made one decision that resulted in him waking up handcuffed to a hospital bed. Beside him was the sheriff who said, “Son, you just killed three people.” CatholicTV will air more of his story in “One Decision.” tomorrow. You may have caught the documentary earlier this week. It airs one [...]

It has been one year since some 223,000 registered pilgrims from 170 countries converged on Sydney, Australia for World Youth Day 2008. The World Youth Day anniversary Mass will be streamed live at 6:30 p.m. July 20 from St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney (where the World Youth Day countdown clock rung in the start of [...]

Right around the time we went to press with the story in our July 2 issue about local pro-life billboards, the fate of the billboard on Seventh Avenue sponsored by 1st Way of Maricopa County came into question. Apparently, lawyers for the lessor called for it to be torn down because of sudden objections to [...]