With profound reverence, the Catholic Church upholds the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death, as a sacred gift from God. Every person’s dignity calls for love, protection, and respect, inspiring compassionate care and opposition to practices that harm life.
Prison ministry for adults, within the Diocese of Phoenix Prison Ministry, involves the badged volunteer (MCSO or ADOC) entering the facility, passing through security and entering into the location upon which the inmates are brought to you in order to receive the Gospel and the Blessed Sacrament.
Prison ministry for Youth and Young Adults takes place at The Adobe Mountain School and three different jails within the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (Lower Buckeye Jail, East Valley Juvenile, Durango Juvenile Location).
The Diocesan Commission fosters communion by leading initiatives of prayer, catechesis, dialogue, and collaboration throughout the diocese.
The Church in Phoenix is called to vibrantly live out the identity and mission that it has received from Christ: to be “a sign and instrument of communion with God and of unity among all men” (CCC 775).
Tracing the roots of St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in our new four-part series. This week we travel back to the 1930’s and discover how one
The Annual Gospel of Life Appeal will take place on Respect Life Weekend on October and 3th and 4th during all Sunday weekend masses. The goal of
born in 1869, in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was kidnapped while working in the fields with her family and subsequently sold into slavery. Her captors asked for her name but she was too terrified to remember so they named her “Bakhita,” which means “fortunate” in Arabic.
Quick Links: Who We Are The use of the word Black with a capital B, refers to our culture, and is interchangeable with the term
Embryonic Stem Cell research (ESCR) involves harvesting human embryos (usually discarded embryos from IVF clinics) for their stem cells, the primordial cells in their body that have the potential to change into any other kind of cell (such as bone, muscle, or nerve, etc.) that could be used to repair damaged cells in a sick patient (such as turning stem cells into nerve cells and repair a patients damaged spine).
