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If you’re like me and missed PBS’ “Jerusalem: Center of the World” when it aired in prime time last week, there are several chances to catch it again today. It airs at noon, 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Eight World, channel 8.3. Here’s the trailer: From what I understand, it’s more of a historical [...]

Tomorrow marks the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas and of the Diocese of Phoenix. Largely because of that, and the coming Christmas season, there are a lot of events going on this weekend. Here’s a quick look at some of them: Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration at Resurrection. Our Lady [...]

Several Catholic schools diligently keep us  posted on student and school achievements. Here’s a quick look at some recent happenings: Christmas spirit week at Notre Dame Prep — Northern Arizona Catholics got snow earlier this week, but Notre Dame students played in it at school today. The school brought in a snow slide. AS far [...]

For our feature on Our Lady of Guadalupe, which we published last week, I interviewed James DeMars, creator of “Guadalupe: Our Lady of the Roses.” He and his producer, Robert Doyle, sat down with me for a long interview before Thanksgiving and described some of the challenges behind writing the opera. DeMars, who teaches at [...]

Strength for the future People I interviewed for the 40th anniversary article easily came up with various strengths of the Phoenix Diocese. Those strengths pave the way for the diocese’s next 40 years, whose challenges and successes are “going to be just as great as they were in the first 40 years,” according to Msgr. [...]