Diocese of Phoenix creates Office of Mental Health Ministry
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than twice as many people died in 2020 by their own hand than by someone else.
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by bcadmin | Sep 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, Mental health, News, suicide | 0 |
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than twice as many people died in 2020 by their own hand than by someone else.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News | 0 |
When now-retired Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was appointed to head the Phoenix Diocese in 2003, he said he didn’t know why he was given the new appointment.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Arizona, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News | 0 |
In a joyous transition punctuated by church tradition, rich, uplifting music and a call to abide in God’s goodness, love and blessing, Bishop John P. Dolan was installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix Aug. 2.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, St. Josephine Bakhita | 0 |
The Diocese of Phoenix is taking a major step forward in its efforts to draw Black Catholics and African Americans to the faith with a mission that both welcomes new worshippers and engages inactive ones.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Arizona, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Sister Helen Prejean | 0 |
Arizona’s Catholic bishops and other Catholic opponents of the death penalty spoke out against the June 8 execution of Frank Atwood, just as they did for the May 11 execution of Clarence Dixon, another Arizona death-row prisoner.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, SNAP | 0 |
The next bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix said Friday that he will strive to be open when it comes to investigations of sex abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Padre Kino, relics | 0 |
A small group from Arizona visited Padre Kino’s remains in Magdalena de Kino, Mexico, to create third-class relics for distribution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic school, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Prayer, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
The power of prayer plus the aid of technology united two families thousands of miles apart in an international rescue operation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Baptism, Canon Law, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Sacraments | 0 |
Families came one by one to the baptismal font in a Phoenix church where Father Andrés Arango, whose baptisms up until last summer are presumed to be invalid, poured holy water over the heads of a dozen people in a do-over of the Catholic ritual.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2022 | Arizona, Associated Press, Baptism, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, lead, News, Sacraments | 0 |
The priest was beloved by his parishioners — yet for years he made a one-word ritual mistake, repeatedly, that has caused confusion and anxiety for thousands of Catholics in the Phoenix area now worrying that they were improperly baptized.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Baptism, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Diocese of Phoenix, News | 0 |
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix said baptisms performed by a priest during years of ministry in the diocese are invalid, leading to the resignation of the clergyman Feb. 1.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Anti-abortion, Associated Press, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Church in the US, clergy sex abuse, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Pope Francis, Retirement | 0 |
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, who has overseen the Phoenix Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church since 2003, submitted a request to retire to Pope Francis upon reaching his 75th birthday, the age limit for bishops, church officials said Friday.
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