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Fr. Ryan Lee grew up in Arizona as the oldest child in his family, but only by 60 seconds. He’s got a twin brother and a younger sister and he might be the only priest in the Diocese of Phoenix who knows how to care for an elephant or an orangutan.

There’s no telling what a lunchtime meeting twice per month can do for the soul. The impact on those they pray for during that meeting — their top agenda item — is equally immeasurable. The main order of business: pray for and network with priests, religious and those in discernment.

Fr. Dan Connealy’s first few months as a priest may have him feeling like life came full circle.

“I die the King’s good servant; but God’s first.” These were the last words spoken by St. Thomas More, a 16th-century politician and martyr, who died defending the Catholic faith. The life of St. Thomas More and his close friend St. John Fisher, like many other saints, illustrates the necessity of having courage when religious freedom is attacked.

Fr. Sheunesu Bowora’s first year of priesthood will tangibly seal his religious vocation.

It’s a faith-filled recipe for growth — spiritual, intellectual and personal — that both children and their parents want to try again and again, even beyond the standard five-day format.

Trent Horn, who once worked for the Diocese of Phoenix, is temporarily returning to the Valley to present Catholic Answers' Summer Talk Series. Each...

Many young men claim their time at Brophy College Preparatory was a formative one. The same goes for a newly ordained priest.

When Richard Opi was born in Uganda without arms, community natives there advised his parents to kill him. To be born with such an affliction, they said, was a disgrace and surely a bad omen.

Alison Dunn, an art teacher four times over at Xavier College Preparatory, will be the keynote speaker at the Congressional Art Competition in Washington, D.C. June 23.