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Whether you’ve been tipped off or not, we’re closing out National Vocation Awareness Week. It’s a time focused on praying for, and perhaps outright inviting, those around you to discern the priesthood and consecrated religious life. Given that, here are a few vocation resources to explore and share (it’s a long weekend, there’s time): Daily [...]

Tune in to the CatholicTV Network — on TV, online or through your iPhone or iPad — tonight for exclusive Vatican access to footage of Pope Benedict’s daily life. The production crew for CatholicTV’s “House+Home” program went inside the pope’s private residence and captured intimate details of his daily life. The special one-hour edition airs [...]

For some time now, I’ve been receiving regular reflections written by a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. She writes from Ohio, but knows a thing or two about Phoenix. Sr. Mary Ann Barnhorn, director of development for the Ohio Province visited the Valley as recently as last spring when the order celebrated 60 years [...]

Sure we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany at Mass this weekend, but I still have the Christmas season on my mind . . . and the Nativity set out at home. Today’s transition from “Christmas vacation mode” to “work mode” made the viral video, “Digital Story of the Nativity,” all the more entertaining to [...]

The Diocese of Phoenix doesn’t have any priestly ordinations scheduled for this year, but they have been taking place nationwide in recent weeks. Eudist Father Ben Drapeau, parochial vicar at St. Jerome Parish, happily reported a priestly vocation update in last month’s bulletin: Juan Gabriel Castillo, a Eudist seminarian, was ordained to the priesthood (May [...]