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		<title>Weekend calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parishes, schools and other Catholic groups are taking full advantage of the beautiful weekend weather in Arizona. This weekend&#8217;s calendar is jam-packed. Take a look:

Activities/Entertainment —


Nun Run — Here&#8217;s the complete schedule for tomorrow&#8217;s race. It&#8217;s at Victory Lane Sports Park, 22603 N. 43rd Ave. in Glendale. Proceeds help build a Poor Clare monastery in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed Mary MacKillop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 2008 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/18/blessed-mary-mackillop/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Romero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Agnes Parish will be marking the 30th anniversary of the murder of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero March 24 with a 7 p.m. Mass.
About five years ago, I got a chance to interview the archbishop&#8217;s youngest brother, Santos Gaspar Romero, right here in my cubicle. I&#8217;d been working for The Catholic Sun for less than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/17/remembering-romero/</link>
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		<title>A year of perpetual adoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glendale is marking a year of perpetual adoration with a 6 p.m. Mass today. Mass will be followed by a visit at the perpetual adoration chapel and refreshments.
The Catholic Sun covered the happy event — which coincided with St. Patrick&#8217;s Day — in both print and with video.
“So many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/17/a-year-of-perpetual-adoration/</link>
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		<title>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you wearing green as you read this? Do you remember or know why? St. Patrick Parish in Scottsdale tipped me off to some articles to brush up on its patron saint.
One reports on a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade in North Carolina and some Catholic efforts to keep the saint&#8217;s name and bio alive. Another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day/</link>
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		<title>Catholic Relief Services response to earthquake in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catholic Relief Services was overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from Catholics across the United States in response to the needs of earthquake survivors in Haiti. The video above shows how CRS put those donations to action in the days immediately following the quake.



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		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/16/catholic-relief-services-response-to-earthquake-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>C-Span recognizes Brophy student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the record number of entries received for this year&#8217;s Student Cam competition (1,003), C-Span said a piece by a Brophy senior was among the best quality.
The news station announced 75 winners last week including Brophy senior Ryan Donahue, who earned honorable mention.
The competition challenged middle and high school students to create a five-to-eight-minute documentary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/16/c-span-recognizes-brophy-student/</link>
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		<title>Free tax preparation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a friendly reminder: You have one month to file your taxes.
If you need some help filing them, or know someone who does, consider contacting Catholic Charities. Below is an announcement we ran in our March 4 issue of The Catholic Sun.
Catholic Charities offers free tax preparation 
Catholic Charities Community Services is providing free tax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/15/free-tax-preparation/</link>
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		<title>Weekend calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Patrick&#8217;s Day events
Relive last year&#8217;s celebration at Ss. Simon and Jude School while checking out your options for this year.



Parade — Sr. Raphael Quinn, in the above video) is this year&#8217;s Grand Marshall for Phoenix&#8217;s 27th annual celebration. St. Mary&#8217;s High School bands are also scheduled somewhere in the lineup. The parade starts at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/12/weekend-calendar-6/</link>
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		<title>Operation Rice Bowl — U.S. speaker tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MESA — Students at St. Timothy School heard a firsthand account March 5 of how funds from their second annual Operation Rice Bowl collection transforms lives.
The global hunger awareness initiative, which coincides with Lent, is a project of Catholic Relief Services.
Thomas Awiapo and his three brothers ate from a single bowl as children. His younger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/12/operation-rice-bowl-%e2%80%94-u-s-speaker-tour/</link>
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		<title>Nun Run&#8217;s run schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard about the inaugural Nun Run yet, today is your chance to catch up.
The Poor Clare Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, who are organizing the run to support ongoing monastery construction in Tonopah, will promote the March 20 event three times today. Here is their broadcast (run) schedule:

11 a.m. Sonoran Living, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/11/nun-runs-run-schedule/</link>
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		<title>Chandler, Gilbert top in healthcare leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Executives from Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert medical centers, members of Catholic Healthcare West, were again recognized for healthcare leadership.
“Arizona Business Magazine” presented top honors to staff from both campuses during its third annual awards dinner March 3 for excellence as a:

Healthcare administrator — Kathleen Dowler, director of Mission Integration for both facilities
Nurse or Nursing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/11/chandler-gilbert-top-in-healthcare-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Caregiver training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some careers you study and train for. Others you tend to learn on the job. Family caregivers tend to fall into the latter category as soon as illness or accident strikes.
The Foundation for Senior Living is offering a series of classes this month to help Valley caregivers — professional or not — learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/10/caregiver-training/</link>
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		<title>Diocesan schools prepare for growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[School administrators hope their students grow in faith and knowledge daily. To better serve student needs today and in the future, several of them are taking major steps toward campus growth this month.


Seton Catholic Preparatory High School broke ground for its three-story fine arts/academic building Feb. 26. Construction crews got to work on the real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/08/diocesan-schools-prepare-for-growth/</link>
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		<title>Arizona bishops call on state legislature to withdraw immigration bills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona bishops are calling state legislators to &#8220;keep in mind the most vulnerable among us&#8221; when considering new laws.
The Arizona Catholic Conference, the Arizona bishops&#8217; public policy arm,  issued a statement earlier today asking the state legislature to reconsider SB 1070 and HB 2632, identical bills that would require local police to enforce immigration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/08/arizona-bishops-call-on-state-legislature-to-withdraw-immigration-bills/</link>
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		<title>Quirky clothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally finished a draft of a coverage story on Seton&#8217;s groundbreaking. School, church and community leaders ceremoniously broke ground last week for a new multi-story classroom building.
I was there taking notes for the article and taking pictures to go with it.
I took pictures from several different angles during the blessing and groundbreaking ceremony. At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/06/quirky-clothing/</link>
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		<title>Bishop Olmsted interview on &#8216;Horizonte&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you missed Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s interview last night on KAET Channel 8, don’t worry. You can watch it right now on Arizona’s PBS Web site.
The bishop sat down for a 24-minute interview with Horizonte host José Cárdenas, senior vice president and general counsel of Arizona State University.
The wide-ranging interview covered topics from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/05/bishop-olmsted-interview-on-horizonte/</link>
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		<title>Chandler Regional Medical Center prepares to meet growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHANDLER — Chandler Regional Medical Center, a member of Catholic Healthcare West, is ready to begin a $135 million expansion project.
It will add more than 200 people to staff a new patient tower and expanded cardiac catheterization laboratories.
The $9.9 million cardiac catheterization laboratory expansion will be the first of the two projects, beginning construction later [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/05/chandler-regional-medical-center-prepares-to-meet-growth/</link>
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		<title>Weekend happenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of things going on around the diocese these days. I blame it on Lent being in full swing and the fair weather. Keep the success of the following activities in your prayers, and if you have a couple of hours free this weekend outside of Mass, feel free to attend:

Spiritual enrichment —


Eucharistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/05/weekend-happenings/</link>
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		<title>Special delivery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to the post office earlier this week. I don&#8217;t go often, but my wife&#8217;s family lives in Ireland and there&#8217;s a few extra steps you need to take to send a package. (I get along with her parents well, but maybe the distance helps.) Anyway, so I go for my in-laws, basically, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/04/special-delivery/</link>
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		<title>Bishop Olmsted to appear on &#8216;Horizonte&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted will be the only guest on KAET&#8217;s Horizonte tomorrow.
The weekly public affairs program, which is  produced by Arizona Public Broadcasting (Channel 8), focuses on Arizona issues through a Hispanic lens. The program is hosted by José Cárdenas, senior vice president and general counsel of Arizona State University. The program will air at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/03/bishop-olmsted-to-appear-on-horizante-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>Eucharistic Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight marks the midway point for the Eucharistic Congress at St. Mary Parish in Chandler.
If you haven&#8217;t been yet, stop by tonight. Each evening starts with a 7 p.m. Mass followed by a keynote speaker.
Archbishop Marcel Gervais from Canada is speaking tonight with our bishop, Thomas J. Olmsted on deck for tomorrow and Fr. James [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/03/eucharistic-congress/</link>
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		<title>U.S. premiere of “Pride and Prejudice” tomorrow in Phoenix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Austen lovers can finally see a classic story come to life on a U.S. stage.
The theatre departments at Brophy and Xavier College preparatories are starring in the U.S. premiere of “Pride and Prejudice” March 4-6.
This well loved story takes place in 1813 England.  Five daughters anxious to find five husbands learn about themselves, their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/03/u-s-premiere-of-%e2%80%9cpride-and-prejudice%e2%80%9d-tomorrow-in-phoenix/</link>
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		<title>Immaculate Heart Radio listeners speak out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One week ago, Arizona Catholics were in the midst of the first pledge drive for Immaculate Heart Radio, which launched, KIHP AM 1310 in Phoenix in December. The 24-hour lay Catholic radio apostolate airs original programming and EWTN shows to help Catholics better understand their faith and to reach those who have fallen away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/03/immaculate-heart-radio-listeners-speak-out/</link>
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		<title>Seminarian midterms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Torres, a first-year seminarian at the Pontifical College Josephinum and a Bourgade alumnus, just sent me this photo and the following message. Thought I&#8217;d share it as well as the request for continued prayers as midterms, essays and projects culminate this week (in this Year for Priests, these prayers for seminarians from The Curé [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2010/03/02/seminarian-midterms/</link>
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