Immaculate Heart Academy, a Catholic middle school in Oro Valley, won the top prizes in the Arizona State Science and Engineering Fair last month at the Phoenix Convention Center. Immaculate Heart was named the top junior high school (7th and 8th grade division) for 2012 and science teacher Colleen Page was named the top teacher. Read More
Taking advantage of the fact that Tucson is “one of the sunniest places in the United States,” the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have expanded their foray into solar energy at the Benedictine Monastery on North Country Club Road. An array of new solar panels has been added to the roof-top panels installed five years Read More
By PAT WARGOCKI For almost two weeks last month my daughter-in-law held down the fort for her three little ones while our son was in Thailand on a business trip. One evening after an especially busy day, she was trying to prepare dinner for the 3- and 5-year olds when the 7-month old baby started Read More
By MARCO ANTONIO CARRASCO Many of us who have prayed, at times feel like God hears our prayers but does not listen attentively because we do not receive quite what we wanted or expected. Why is this? Sometimes we find ourselves praying to God for the day to go smoothly, but that just does not Read More
By FATHER RICKY ORDOÑEZ Special to The New Vision The wheezing shudder of the jet engines shake the entire plane as I peer out of the window to see the fading green landscape slowly being obscured by the clouds. As the plane continues the climb to 35,000 feet, I have this wrenching feeling in my Read More
Oils blessed Priests from throughout the Diocese of Tucson joined Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas on April 2 for the annual Chrism Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral, where three oils were blessed and distributed to pastors to use at their parishes during the coming year. The occasion was used to install newly named Monsignors Al Schifano Read More
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The timing of Pew Hispanic Center’s report saying Mexican migration to the U.S. had leveled off or reversed course ensured that it would get prominent play April 23 and 24. Coming just two days before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Arizona v. United States over that state’s law cracking down Read More
Cada año, durante la primavera, muchos niños reciben el gran don de Dios: la presencia de su Hijo, Jesús, en la ceremonia de la Primera Comunión. En verdad la Santa Comunión es el pan del cielo. Tenemos que comer cada día para estar sanos y fuertes. También tenemos que recibir la Santa Comunión con frecuencia Read More
Jorge Bucay, el gran gestalista argentino, enseña “La Regla del Oso Idiota”. Ésta, mas o menos va así: sí alguna vez anhelas obtener algo con toda tu alma, y ello te causa mucha ansiedad, somételo a la regla del “OSO”. Son tres letras. La “O” significa que debes luchar por Obtenerlo. Tienes que buscar esa Read More
Looking up, looking around, Jesus has quite a lot to say during the Last Supper of John’s Gospel. Almost at the end he says, “And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be Read More