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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
March 28, 2011

Catholic voting guide for PBS award

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : Local News

Did you cast your vote yet for the People’s Choice Poll? You’re voting for nonprofits that make a difference in the Arizona community. You don’t have to prove residency to vote. It’s all part of Arizona PBS’ annual “Be More Awards.” Organizations that submitted an application in any of the five judged categories — outstanding [...]


March 24, 2011

Weekend calendar March 25-27

Posted by : ambria

Happy Feast Day tomorrow to Annunciation Catholic school’s 53 students (grades 1-3) and their families. The students are leading Stations of the Cross. Also feel free to keep in prayer…. All Saints Youth in Mesa. They’re working at St. John’s Mission Church on the Gila River Indian Community this weekend to clean the grounds around [...]


March 24, 2011

Spelling practice for Catholics

Posted by : ambria

The diocesan Spanish Spelling Bee is tonight at St. Timothy School in Mesa. Check out the recap from last year’s bee for an idea of the words to expect Or if you’d like to re-visit the English Spelling Bee from earlier this year, click here. I always enjoy reading about the church terms these students [...]


March 23, 2011

‘La Comunidad’ on the web

Posted by : J.D. Long-García
Filed under : From the Staff

Just set up a web version of the Spanish-language pages of The Catholic Sun, “La Comunidad.” We used to have Spanish online, going on six years ago now. With a website redesign, we decided to go “English-only” because we weren’t seeing significant web traffic to the Spanish pages. I’ve received comments here and there over [...]

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March 23, 2011

‘Greatest Love’ all-age Lenten retreat

Posted by : ambria

It turns out that a secular paper recently allotted space for a Catholic pastor to discuss the liturgical season of Lent. Fr. Michael Accinni Reinhardt’s guest column, “Lent — A Call to the wilderness” was published yesterday. It promoted, among other things, the traditions of Lent and the need for a period of retreat. Many [...]