he was OK with that despite growing up in the Lutheran Church plus its Sunday school and youth programs. Robbins knew that Lutheranism came out of Catholicism and knew her faith was important enough to her to have it incorporated into her high school education.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CNS) — Who was Jesus? Why do we need a pope? How were we made by God? All of these are good questions that anyone considering becoming Catholic might ask.
In a tradition dating back to the early Church, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix gathered March 30 with his brother priests to bless the oils that will be used in sacraments during the coming year.
In his First Letter, St. John writes (3:16): “The way we came to know love was that He laid down His life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our sisters and brothers.”
Mary, the mother of Jesus and mother of the Church, already is in glory in heaven, but she is always with the Church and helps it face the trials of the devil, Pope Francis
Theresa Enciso moved to North Phoenix 35 years ago with one requirement — to be close to a Catholic Church. That Church ended up being Our Lady of the Valley Parish, founded only five years earlier, on July 24, 1973.