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Strength for the future People I interviewed for the 40th anniversary article easily came up with various strengths of the Phoenix Diocese. Those strengths pave the way for the diocese’s next 40 years, whose challenges and successes are “going to be just as great as they were in the first 40 years,” according to Msgr. [...]

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted wrote extensively in The Catholic Sun about the Diocese of Phoenix at 40, namely the impact of Vatican II, which ended shortly before the diocese was established. Those articles are below, but first here’s a look at what other church leaders had to say about the impact of Vatican II on [...]

I told some people over the Thanksgiving break about the Diocese of Phoenix turning 40 today. All of them — 99% non-Arizonans — figured Phoenix was older than that, but it just isn’t so. Oddly enough, talk of Phoenix becoming its own diocese died down just before the announcement became official. Or at least, that’s [...]