Tucson Archives

Diocese of Tucson to hold discussion on migrant housing

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jul 17, 2019

Tucson’s Catholic leadership is planning to meet with local government officials about where the city can temporarily house migrants seeking asylum.

Ex-Arizona schools considered for temporary migrant lodging

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jul 13, 2019

Arizona school district officials are considering former school buildings to house migrant families.

Diocese looks to open temporary shelter for migrants in county facility

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 11, 2019

Catholic Community Services in the Tucson Diocese has reached a tentative agreement with Pima County to turn an unused juvenile detention facility into a temporary shelter for asylum-seekers.

Retired Sacramento Bishop Quinn, 97, dies; was oldest U.S. prelate

Catholic News Service, Obituary
Mar 23, 2019

Retired Bishop Francis A. Quinn of Sacramento, California, who headed the Northern California diocese from 1980 to 1994 and later spent 13 years ministering to Native Americans in the Diocese of Tucson, died March 21 at age 97.

Priest who was former national Renew leader and beloved pastor dies

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jan 29, 2019

Msgr. Robert D. Fuller, an Arizona priest who was a national leader of the Renew movement in the early 1980s and a beloved pastor in the Tucson Diocese, died Jan. 23. He was 88.

Tucson Diocese explores what Encuentro means for its future

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Dec 31, 2018

The vision among planners prior to the Fifth Encuentro last September was to identify and create a path to leadership in parishes, dioceses and on the national Catholic stage for bilingual, bicultural Hispanic leaders.