By Kimberley Heatherington OSV News In an era of vocations undeniably impacted by a statistically declining priesthood, it’s perhaps among the rarest of Catholic news headlines: Seminary opens. And yet, in the Diocese of Phoenix — established in 1969, populated with 2 million Catholics, and covering 43,967 square miles — that’s indeed the story, as […]
Graduate finds strength, inspiration in Scripture
Reflection by Easter Almuena Special to the Herald At 62 years of age, I graduated in May with a master’s degree in education with concentration in applied behavior analysis. It was a wonderful journey of learning, mostly of learning about the Scriptures: “Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted […]