Residents on the South Side of Tucson may have heard loud bangs this morning, but they were just fireworks kicking off the Saint Francis Xavier Feast at San Xavier Mission, where festivities will ...

For almost as long as San Xavier has been standing, its bells have rung out to announce the passing of people connected to the mission. In the surrounding Tohono O’odham village of W:ak ...

Jill Schildhouse Sitting just south of Tucson on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Mission San Xavier del Bac (known as the White Dove of the Desert) is one of the finest examples of baroque ...

With these words, St Ignatius, Guru of St Francis Xavier, confronted this ambitious young man ... of the diversity of people who go forth to set the world on fire with the Ignatian Mission and so to ...