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Youth from St. John Vianney Parish in Goodyear are meeting up with youth from other U.S. parishes and schools staffed by Holy Cross religious for World Youth Day events in Madrid, Spain this week. Here’s a “Did you know?” video the youth traveling with Holy Cross priests made. It presents random facts about who and [...]

World Youth Day officially gets underway tomorrow. That means, at long last, the hundreds of pilgrims from the Phoenix Diocese wrapped up their earlier rounds of pilgrimages to places like Rome, Assisi, Santiago and so on and are starting another. This time, instead of the 15-35 fellow pilgrims they traveled with, they’ll find themselves in [...]

If traveling as a large group to a large venue, say Rome or World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain is confusing enough, try reporting on it. Especially when there’s some striking similarities among the first groups of pilgrims to have departed the Phoenix Diocese headed to both destinations. Both left yesterday headed to Rome, possibly [...]

I recently changed personas. Every time I surf the Internet using my Firefox browser, I now have the papal flag hanging over me (as well as the creed in Latin across the bottom of my browser). According to Firefox’s Personas page, I’m one of eight people worldwide decorating my browser window in this fashion. I [...]

Catholic News Service posted a short article yesterday announcing that the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart launched a new Web site reportedly revealing never-before-seen images of their co-founder, Blessed Mary MacKillop among other things. The soon-to-be-saint — canonization is set for October — was among several key figures during World Youth Day [...]