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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
February 5, 2010

Haitian Disaster Relief of Arizona acquires warehouse

Posted by : J.D. Long-García

Last issue, we featured some local efforts to help Haitians after the devastating January earthquake rocked the Caribbean country. Today I received an email from Karen Kohl, who is featured in this week’s piece and is involved with Haitian Disaster Relief of Arizona. She reports 8,000 square feet of warehouse space were donated to the [...]


May 13, 2009

When last we saw the president

Posted by : J.D. Long-García
Filed under : Local News, Nation/World, Video

As far as I know, there aren’t any specifically Catholic activities surrounding President Barack Obama’s visit to Arizona State University tonight. The last time he was here, though, we did a story about an non-political prayer vigil at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa. Here’s the video from the event:


March 12, 2009

A banner day at the House

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

From the Arizona Catholic Conference, the public policy agency for the Dioceses of Gallup, Phoenix and Tucson. It was a banner day at the House of Representatives yesterday as four important bills either initiated or supported by the Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) were passed out of this chamber. At the top of the list was [...]