Tucson Diocese to celebrate
decades of service
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson will celebrate a jubilee Mass for almost 20 members of various religious orders Sunday.
The 10 a.m. Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192. Stone Ave., will honor those who have spent years of their lives serving in a religious order, according to the diocese’s weekly “Monday Memo” put out by Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas.
Order members such as priests and nuns will celebrate anywhere from 25 to 70 years of service. This is also the Year of Consecrated Life for the Roman Catholic Church.
Jewish community to host journalist for LGBT talks
Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen will spend Monday in Tucson discussing LGBT rights.
The two free talks are sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s LGBT Jewish Inclusion Project and the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, among others.
“She has such knowledgeable insights into Russian politics and culture, as well as the Jewish Russian minority within that, and the LGBT community in Russia and now here in the United States,” said Edward Leven, the coordinator of the LGBT Jewish Inclusion Project serving lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgendered.
At 4 p.m. Monday, she will present “What Is It About the Gays?” at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, 1245 E. Second St. The 7 p.m. talk at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road, is titled “Putin’s War Against the West.” Books by Gessen will be available for sale and signing at each talk. Call 577-9393 for more information.
