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The Oct. 1, 2009 cover of The Catholic Sun.

This issue is packed with local stories, from an advance piece on the upcoming Rosary Sunday to a feature on the Maternity Outreach Mobile.

You’ll also find the usual, local book (“Finding Gloria, Finding Betty”) and movie (“The Informant!”) reviews, with the Your Catholic Priest profile (this issue it’s Fr. Dennis O’Rourke). On page 3, you’ll find a piece on “The David and Craig Show,” a podcast by two local youth ministers.

Further in, we have an in-depth piece on health care reform as well as shorter stories on Xavier fundraising efforts and the Charity and Development Appeal.

In their column, Joyce Coronel talks about the right kind of home and Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, a major source for the health care story, talks about the complicated and morally problematic issue of “mitochondrial swapping.”

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, in his Jesus Caritas column, talks about the Blessed Miguel Pro and we continue with the “Sacred Space” feature, which profiles a parish in the Phoenix Diocese each issue. Last issue we kicked things off with Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral. This next issue… we’ll you’ll find out soon enough. Papers — more than 117,000 of them —will be hitting mailboxes around the diocese next week.