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The Arizona bishops are calling state legislators to “keep in mind the most vulnerable among us” when considering new laws. The Arizona Catholic Conference, the Arizona bishops’ 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 [...]

WASHINGTON — Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person), an Instruction from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on ethical issues arising from biomedical research, provides guidance on how to respect human life and human procreation in our heavily scientific age, said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United [...]

Catholics from around the Phoenix Diocese gathered for a procession and Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 7 in downtown Phoenix. An estimated 700 joined Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, who concelebrated the Mass with several priests, including Holy Cross Father John Herman, the bilingual homilist. The event also marked the beginning of [...]

In about an hour, the third annual Honor Your Mother celebration will begin with a procession from Immaculate Heart Parish to St. Mary’s Basilica in downtown Phoenix. The 12:30 p.m. procession will be followed by a 2 p.m. Mass celebrated by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted. The event is a way for Catholics throughout the diocese [...]

Catholic Online posted an interesting article from Democrats for Life today. In addition to detailing what, exactly, are stem cells, as well as the benefits of adult stem cell research, the article makes it clear why embryonic stem cell research is not acceptable. “Embryonic stem cell research requires the destruction of a human embryo. In [...]