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Students at St.Vincent de Paul School got a jump start on raising money for the diocesan Charity and Development Appeal. They raised $475 from a Feb. 11 Buck-a-Jeans Day. This was a day or two before families throughout the Phoenix Diocese made their pledges at weekend Masses. Here is what the school sent The Catholic [...]

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 [...]

Last week, 13 young adults left their homes in the Diocese of Phoenix and their comforts of modern technology for a 12-day mission trip to Haiti. Today, more Phoenix missionaries are crossing international lines in the name of the Gospel. Eleven young adults from Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral are headed to South Africa through [...]

It will be a new era for Holy Cross fathers. Fr. Hugh Cleary, the congregation’s leader for the last 12 years, the maximum term according to the order’s constitution, is being replaced. Fr. Richard Warner, CSC, was elected Superior General of the Congregation of Holy Cross during its general chapter meeting in Rome late last [...]

Annulments aren’t fun — not for kids, not for parents, not for friends. But, as I’ve seen in my own family, annulments heal old wounds. You can find out a lot more about annulments on the Phoenix Diocese’s Tribunal Web site, launched today. It’s an effort to “be more present to the People of God,” according [...]