New financial planning program offers low commitment, high returns on investment
Friday night and Saturday classes for nine months at Benedictine University in Mesa can turn adult students into financial planners ready for certification.
Seton’s state champion basketball team heads to national tournament
The tournament provides a platform for top nationally ranked high school basketball teams to play one another.
Music programs in diocesan schools hit all the right notes
Music education remains a budgeted item at local Catholic schools thanks to a longstanding donor who believes in its power and to administrators who feel the same way.
Men in the Breach: Michael Rock, M.D., advises pro-life clinics, terminally ill as ‘Guardian of Faith’
Dr. Michael Rock has been standing in the breach for decades, defending the unborn and fighting to protect the lives of the elderly and infirm. He recently received the Guardian of Faith award from the National Catholic Medical Association, an organization he’s been active in for years and was president of in the late 1990s.
Moms’ group delivers Holy Week happiness to area children
A group of Ahwatukee moms brought some early Easter joy to children whose mothers or other caretakers struggle to provide.
Beloved baseball hall-of-famer, philanthropist Joe Garagiola dies at 90
PHOENIX (CNS) — Baseball legend and popular sports broadcaster Joe Garagiola, who died March 23 at age 90, was a lifelong Catholic who was a tireless advocate for the poor in Arizona.
Chrism Mass: Sacred oils blessed, sacred promises renewed
The bilingual liturgy draws hundreds to witness the blessing of the oils that will be used in the Church’s sacramental celebrations such as Confirmation, Ordination, Anointing of the Sick and Baptism.
Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia to establish diocesan presence, serve new high school
Among the throngs of people the Diocese of Phoenix is embracing into its fold this Holy Week is a deeply-rooted religious community.
Visit the Sick: Tan Duong gets ‘second chance’ to bring Jesus to elderly, infirm
Tan Duong was 6 years old when his parents put him and his two sisters into a small boat headed for America in order to escape life under Vietnam’s communist regime. The youngest of 11 children, Tan remembers being out on the open sea, facing armed pirates.
How the RCIA began: The debt we owe to St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Doubt clouded the hearts of fourth century Christians. Confusion was sown by a priest named Arius. Dark storms of skepticism swept across large swaths...
