News from the Diocese of Tucson

Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ, Announces Plans to Step Down in March of 2021

“He wasn’t forcing cultures together with the sword, cannon or musket. He did it with his own spirituality." Fr. Peter Neely, S.J. of the Kino Border Institute

Financial resources available to our parishes varies widely across the Diocese of Tucson. The Diocese of Tucson Catholic Foundation provides an option to support all 78 parishes during the closure. 

On October 29, 2008 Poverello House of Tucson opened its doors to invited homeless men to come in off the streets for a day to sit down, decompress, get cleaned up and have a couple of good meals in a homelike environment.

In order to better educate voters the Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) has just released its 2020 Voter’s Guide for the upcoming Primary Election online at www.azcatholicconference.org.

CCS is grateful for the 15 years of service given by Liz McMahon in developing resources for people who need us most. We wish Liz every blessing in her retirement.

"Pope Francis speaks of the priest as someone who needs to have the smell of the sheep, and that certainly was part of what Father Kino had in mind," Bishop Kicanas said.

Catholic University has its main campus in Washington D.C. and has chosen Tucson as a satellite campus. Learn more about the unique opportunities, scholarships and guidance Catholic under graduate education has to offer Southern Arizona students.

It's a long-standing puzzle, stemming from a conversation in the summer of 1950 among a group of physicists who were wondering: If there is such a high probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe, then, as Enrico Fermi was alleged to have said, "Where is everybody?"

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School PreK will be opening for in-person learning on Tuesday, September 8th!

Fr. Eusebio Kino, S.J. defended the desert people, founded 24 missions, many visitas, 19 rancherias, began the cattle industry in Sonora and Arizona. planted fruit trees and introduced new grains to augment the tradition crops of the desert people.

After a thirty year career in law enforcement and a former Captain in the Tucson Police Department, Mr. Sayre continues his career protecting the vulnerable.

Our Catholic schools across the diocese have begun fall classes online the past couple weeks and are ready to open their campuses to students as local and state health deems it safe. 

parishes during the closure. They developed the HOPE Campaign (Helping our Parishes Endure) where a parishioner from anywhere in the Diocese of Tucson could donate to their parish on-line. To date, almost $50,000 has been donated.

Covid19 has brought sadness and pain to us. we are struggling with our faith but, we still look up to GOD ABOVE for help. God above is a song of Lament, a cry for help. it moves from the darkness of uncertainty and pain to the brightness that hope brings.

Resiliency of graduates and school staff enable a transition to the next step in life for many Southern Arizona Catholic School graduates

Bishop Edward Weisenburger announces that as of August 7th the majority of our parishes have the option to open once again for limited public worship.

Governor Doug Ducey today extended an executive order pausing operations on gyms, bars, nightclubs, movie theaters, water parks, and tubing. Mass gatherings limited to 50 people or less.

One of the most respected priests in the Diocese of Tucson, Fr. John Lyons is given the honorary title of Monsignor by Pope Francis.

When Rosie Garcia, a parishioner of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson, heard the announcement that Pope Francis had formally recognized the heroic virtues of sainthood candidate Jesuit Father Eusebio Kino, she said she cried tears of joy.