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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.

 
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 win [...]

I ran across a firsthand account from a local seminarian that I wanted to pass along. It’s from Jimmy Wraith, a first semester seminarian who some of you might have met in my June article highlighting what various students planned to do after graduating from Catholic high schools across the Valley. Wraith wrote it to [...]

When I was researching agencies to contact for the article I wrote on Thanksgiving and Christmas service opportunities, the Foundation for Senior Living was on my list. I ended up cutting them because I couldn’t find anything online about current/holiday specific service needs. A short while later, a blurb in the agency’s fall newsletter corrected [...]

Can’t wait until Christmas Eve or Christmas day to hear the story of Jesus’ birth? No problem. Many parishes and schools are portraying it beginning this weekend. Below are the times and places around the diocese where you can experience a live re-enactment of the greatest story ever told or enjoy local renditions of other [...]