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‘Co-workers: sign up now’ There is something for everyone at this Diocese-wide conference
Everyone is invited – there will be 83 workshop choices sure to include every ministry, job, and role in the parish or school setting – when the Diocese of Tucson hosts a unique three-day conference next month at the Tucson Convention Center. “No matter your role, there will be workshops designed to enrich your experience in service to our Church,” said Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas. “I strongly urge all of my co-workers to sign up now, join us and take advantage of the opportunities this conference presents.” The conference will run from Thursday,
March 15, through Saturday, March 17. Titled “Co-Workers in the Vineyard,” the event will feature four general sessions that will “grab your attention, draw you in, and embrace you in a celebration of who we are together: Co-workers in the vineyard of the Lord,” said Joe Perdreauville, a principal organizer of the event and assistant director of the diocese’s Pastoral Services Department. Three inspiring keynote addresses will be delivered: On Thursday evening, Spokane, Wash., Bishop Blase Cupich will encourage all See CO-WORKERS page 9
‘how we deal with special needs tells our view of human dignity’ WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Every child O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgeand adult with special needs, every unwanted town University. It is named for the late unborn child and every person who is “poor, Cardinal John O’Connor, archbishop of New York from 1984 to 2000. weak, abandoned or homeless” is “an The student-run conference icon of God’s face and a vessel of his Many ‘March for drew more than 700 young people love,” said Philadelphia Archbishop Life’ in Tucson and adults. The agenda includCharles J. Chaput. — Page 28 ed sessions on topics such as the “How we treat these persons -international abortion situation; whether we revere them and welcome media and the pro-life movement; abortion them, or throw them away in distaste -shows what we really believe about human and natural law; adoption’s role in the prodignity, both as individuals and as a nation,” life movement; and ethical controversies in he said Jan. 22 in a keynote address at a pro- evolving medical technologies. Archbishop Chaput talked about “the life conference in Washington. Archbishop Chaput was the keynote kind of people we’re becoming and what we speaker at the 13th annual Cardinal See DIGNITY page 28
Just as Arizona was becoming a state, a young Franciscan Friar began to make history in the Diocese of Tucson See Centennial supplement, Pages 11 - 18
The New Vision photo by Bern Zovistoski
Breaking ground Wearing a hard hat, a joyful Father Liam Leahy, pastor of st. Mark Parish in Oro Valley, joins youngsters for a symbolic groundbreaking for a brand new parish adjacent to the current one on W. Tangerine Road. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas presided at a Mass in celebration of the special occasion. The new church is expected to be ready in about a year.