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Category: Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted

Kansas, Arizona bishops urge vaccination, conscience safeguards

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, encouraged Catholics to receive one of the coronavirus vaccines if they discern that it is appropriate to do so.

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Padre Kino, declared venerable, known as ‘patron saint of borderlands’

When Rosie Garcia, a parishioner of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson, heard the announcement that Pope Francis had formally recognized the heroic virtues of sainthood candidate Jesuit Father Eusebio Kino, she said she cried tears of joy.

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In prayer ‘we find answers,’ says marcher at prayerful anti-racism protest

Dion Johnson was shot and killed by an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer May 25, the same day George Floyd was killed. When officers found Johnson, he had fallen asleep in his car parked at the gore point where two local highways merge in Phoenix.

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Injustice of racism perpetuated by indifference, says bishop

Just as the prodigal son cried out to his father for forgiveness, so too we cry out to God the Father for the sin of racism, said Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix at a special “Mass for Forgiveness of the Sin of Racism” June 8 at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral.

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