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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvpaUQX60WE St. Timothy School in Mesa posted this video two days before Pope Benedict XVI's final day as the Church's supreme leader. Check out whose...

Nun Run, a play, Teen Maze, book signing, rummage sales... where will you be (besides Mass) this weekend?

All members of a Divine Mercy prayer group are invited to a free, bi-lingual gathering to pray, sing, and share in the mercy. It...

Thanks be to God, we do have a Catholic press. I spend most of my time reading and, well, writing it. The value of Catholic journalist isn't lost on me, especially when one of our beloved pope's promulgates an encyclical.

There are quite a few Church-related things to see on TV and online this weekend. Plus concerts at local churches. Take a look.

See how local schools are celebrating Read Across America Day and filling up their bookshelves.

It all comes down to Feb. 28. That’s the cutoff date. While the world is focused on Feb. 28 being the final day of Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate, it’s also the last chance Catholics have to show “charity that makes the Church to live in love,” as the pope said in his final general audience Feb. 27, and have it count. Tomorrow is the final deadline to register online for this weekend’s Hike for the Homeless benefiting St. Joseph the Worker. Registration for the Mach 9 "Run 4 the Nuns" is also underway.

In case this video hasn't passed through your social network yet, here is a two-and-a-half-minute, multilingual tribute to Pope Benedict XVI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23e8splvSdU&list=UUZgLn9S2YR4zOW4x0xZgu8g&index=1 I counted messages from...

Don't forget about fish/soup/spaghetti dinners at your parish and Stations of the Cross on Friday. Feel free to pray for our nearly 250 deacons who are on retreat this weekend and support local Catholic school students headed to Ireland. Also, a big thank you to local Catholics who have signed up to give blood before or after Mass at three East Valley parishes Sunday. Some appointments are still available. Check out some other happenings this weekend.

Most of the 24 winners of the K-8th grade Arizona Rosary Celebration poster contest joined our bishops for Mass at the Diocesan Pastoral Center Feb. 14 followed by a pizza lunch. See which mystery of the rosary was popular among the winning artists and see how many winners were from your parish or school.