Por HERMANA GLADYS ECHENIQUE, O.P. La maternidad es muy valorada en nuestra cultura hispana. El Día de la Madre es uno de los días más sagrados de nuestro calendario. La prioridad de una mujer Latina es sus hijos, llegando incluso antes que su marido. Las mujeres hispanas católicas tienen a María, la madre de Cristo, Read More
Por VICTOR CALDERON La Nueva Visión Manuela Flores todavía tiene presente cómo su fe Católica fue fortalecida siendo una jovencita creciendo en México, cuando el gobierno estaba en contra de la Iglesia. “Ponían policías afuera de las iglesias para que la gente no pudiera entrar en ellas,” Flores, 99, dice de la Guerra de los 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
By VICTOR CALDERON The New Vision The senior class at San Miguel High School in Tucson unveiled a stained glass tile mural as its class project on April 3. The mural, located on the inside wall of the campus courtyard, includes San Miguel graduates, Our Lady of Guadalupe and a member of the Brothers of Read More
By BERN ZOVISTOSKI Special to The New Vision The Pinal West Vicariate, a region well to the north of Tucson proper, is home to Catholic churches that are among both the oldest and the newest in the Diocese of Tucson. Those formed in the 1860s by French missionaries served pioneers in isolated, sparsely populated desert Read More
By DEACON CARL R. VESSELS, Ph.D. As a teenager I became one of the leaders of a gang. All of us carried and knew how to fight with switchblade knifes. I wore the mask of a “good” boy at home, so my family didn’t have a clue about my membership in the gang. By the Read More
By PATTY JOWELL If you are a married couple who wants to deepen and enrich your relationship, a Marriage Encounter Weekend is for you. The weekend is designed to expand and deepen the joys a couple shares together, whether married for a short time or for many years. On the Encounter Weekend, couples concentrate exclusively Read More
The Kino Heritage Society hosts its annual Kino Festival at Mission San Xavier honoring Padre Eusebio Kino on May 18 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Mission in Tucson. The Festival is held in solidarity with other communities throughout Sonora and Arizona who are holding their own Kino festivals during May. In Southern Arizona, Read More
Only three of the 18 priests appointed in April by Bishop Gerald Kicanas will remain in the same parish, all retaining their current positions as administrator. All of the appointments are effective July 1. Father Walter Balduck, O.F.M. Cap., will remain as administrator at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Mammoth. Father William Cosgrove will remain as Read More
By VICTOR CALDERON The New Vision Living in a simple, small room out in the Apache community of San Carlos, Father Gino Piccoli, O.F.M., was known for his humble accommodations, saying he should live no better than the people around him. Father Gino served as pastor of San Carlos Mission Parish in the Gila/Pinal East Read More