“He came as a peacemaker.“
“El vino para trabajar por la paz.”
"Cuatro Invitaciónes de Papa Benedicto a Jóvenes" — Podcast de Obispo Jerry Kicanas
Visit a ‘joy’
Pope Benedict XVI’s six-day April visit to the U.S. was a monumental success, with the Pontiff’s forthright messages to various constituencies drawing applause and accolades – and, in his emotional face-to-face meetings with five sex abuse victims, tears.
See Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas’ personal reflections, and stories and photos chronicling the Pope’s many activities in Washington and New York City. Click here [+]
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Plying Sonora’s ‘human dump’
Tucson volunteers offer help –and hope
By BERN ZOVISTOSKI
The New Vision
The expansive view of the rolling hills in the distance belies the squalor all around them.
They live in makeshift shacks, constructed of discarded boards and other scrap material.
Their cluttered little community can be reached only by traveling a dusty dirt road that runs through the city dump in Nogales, Sonora.
One of the volunteers in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson who help the downtrodden Mexicans who live there is Joe Bogushefsky.
The community, he said, is called “a human dump.”
Some of the men and women and children who exist there were deported from Arizona, Bogushefsky said as he distributed food and clothing during a recent visit.
Bogushefsky, a parishioner at St. Christopher Parish in Marana who will be ordained a deacon this month, is one of a group of volunteers who have formed an organization called “Poverty 24/6” to extend help to the poor in Mexico. He asked to be referred to as Joe. Read more[+]
Vail parish ‘passes on the faith’ as a communitySince 2003, when leaders decided to approach religious education in a new way, families of St. Rita in the Desert Parish in Vail have studied their Catholic faith as a gathered community.
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‘Legal’ not the same as ‘morally good’Declaring that conscience is “at the heart of human dignity and freedom,” two Arizona bishops have issued a call for support in facing up to the challenges posed by laws that threaten “the freedom to act upon our moral convictions.” |
87 ‘distinguished’ teens earn awardsScores of teens who are “using their gifts generously” in parishes throughout the Diocese of Tucson were awarded medallions by Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas last month at the diocese’s fourth annual Pope John Paul II Youth Awards ceremonies at St. Francis de Sales Parish in Tucson. |
Dios Bendiga a AméricaAl culminar su visita a los Estados Unidos, Benedicto XVI lanzó un llamado a la unidad de la Iglesia para anunciar con plena convicción la esperanza y la alegría de Cristo a ese país. |
Freedom of Conscience: |
Libertad de Conciencia: |
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