By VICTOR CALDERON The New Vision St. Monica Parish in south Tucson unveiled its completely new interior during Easter weekend this past month. The church, at 212 W. Medina Rd., opened its doors on March 30, said Father Raúl Valencia-Garcia, after about five months of renovations including the installation of solar energy panels. The Parish Read More

By VICTOR CALDERON The New Vision San Miguel High School opened in south Tucson in 2004 with a mission to prepare its students to go out and serve others. Now, eight years later, the first of its alumni are graduating from college and doing just that. The alumni were honored at a school gathering in Read More

Por VICTOR CALDERON La Nueva Visión La Diócesis de Tucson ha crecido como comunidad de fe gracias a la labor de más de 120 sacerdotes, señaló el Obispo Gerald Kicanas el mes pasado en ocasión de la convocación sacerdotal anual para la cual se hallaban reunidos. La asamblea, de tres días de duración, tuvo lugar Read More

BALTIMORE (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration joined the broadening chorus calling on President Barack Obama and Congress to “seize the moment” and pass comprehensive immigration reform next year. In a statement issued Nov. 13 during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall general assembly in Baltimore, Los Angeles Read More

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The election of Pope Francis marks a new phase in the Catholic Church’s process of fully understanding, responding to and living out the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, said Cardinal Walter Kasper, who was part of the conclave that elected the new pope. “From Read More

By VICTOR CALDERON The New Vision Manuela Flores still recalls how her Catholic faith was strengthened as a young woman growing up in Mexico when the government was against the Church. “They put police outside the churches so people wouldn’t go in,” Flores, 99, said of the Cristero War that took place from 1926 to Read More