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I just returned from the Mass for altar servers at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral. The pilgrim Mass invited altar servers throughout the diocese to visit the diocese’s mother church for fellowship and prayer.
The cathedral will continue to invite groups for special Masses throughout the Year of St. Paul. I don’t know the exact age [...]

I’ve found myself on the Life Teen Web site a lot lately. I’ve either been looking up details on its “Give It Away Now!” global service project or peeking at this week’s Priests and Musicians conference agenda trying to decide if there’s a session I should cover.
I’ll admit I’ve also been distracted by their Newsbox [...]

TEMPE — Dominican Father James Thompson is kicking off a series of three- and four-part lectures next Tuesday at All Saints Catholic Newman Center.
The first set of three, beginning Sept. 9 and continuing on subsequent Tuesdays, will cover the divisions of Christendom. Fr. Thompson will examine Catholicism relationship to the Eastern Church and the splintered [...]

 Some 130 parish leaders from throughout the diocese kicked off the new catechetical year at the Diocesan Pastoral Center yesterday.
Laypeople and religious leaders involved in children’s catechesis, adult evangelization and marriage and respect life issues plus ministries serving youth, Hispanics and those with disabilities or needing pastoral care, gathered for a day of fellowship and [...]

Sometimes it takes a while to get to what’s important.
I got an email from a concerned reader a couple weeks back about the lead article on the Year of St. Paul in the July 3, 2008 issue.
“It is not in the scriptures that he fell from a horse,” she wrote. “Scripture only  states that ‘he [...]