MADRID (CNS) — Telling seminarians they must prepare seriously for the priesthood by devoting themselves to becoming saints, Pope Benedict XVI gave them a role model: St. John of Avila, who will become the Catholic Church’s 34th doctor of the Church. At the end of a Mass on Aug. 20 with some 6,000 seminarians from Read More
The Diocese of Tucson’s seminarians – including three new ones this year – met last month at the annual Seminarian Convocation at the Redemptorist Renewal Center at Picture Rocks. Thirteen seminarians are beginning this academic year, including Ivan Garcia of St. Helen Parish in Eloy, Jesus Sanchez of St. Jude Thaddeus Parish in San Luis, Read More
Editor’s note: Bishop Kicanas, along with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., represented the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at the Lambeth Conference on Christians in the Holy Land. By BISHOP GERALD F. KICANAS Two visionary archbishops, one Anglican, the other Roman Catholic, convened a gathering at the end of July Read More
By JULIETA GONZALEZ Special to The New Vision As the school year began across the Diocese of Tucson, more than $4.4 million in tuition scholarships were awarded to more than 3,000 students by the Catholic Tuition Support Organization (CTSO). CTSO is currently reviewing Round Two scholarship applicants. The tax-credit based program has provided tuition Read More
MADRID (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI said he left Madrid filled with gratitude to the Spanish people, the World Youth Day organizers and volunteers and the million-plus pilgrims who prayed with him. “Spain is a great nation whose soundly open, pluralistic and respectful society is capable of moving forward without surrendering its profoundly religious and Read More
Bishop Kicanas will be the keynote speaker at a multi-faith memorial service at St. Augustine Cathedral to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on Sept. 11. The service at 7 p.m. will include clergy from a variety of faith traditions united to offer prayers, readings and music in a message of Read More