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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
August 14, 2009

Issue preview: Aug. 20, 2009

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

The next issue of The Catholic Sun is packed with photos, a luxury we don’t often enjoy with a lower page count. We’re running a lot of photos from the Knights of Columbus Guadalupe Festival (see videos here) as well as their international congress, which was held in Phoenix this year. You’ll also find photos [...]


August 3, 2009

Issue preview: Aug. 6, 2009

Posted by : ambria

At long last, another issue of The Catholic Sun is set to hit the streets tomorrow. We canceled our July 17 issue due to a mandated furlough, so this is the first issue since July 2. And to make up for missed time, we put in extra reading material. The Aug. 6 issue includes an [...]


July 30, 2009

Cancer ministry coordinator loses own battle with disease

Posted by : ambria

Debbie Bond, volunteer coordinator for the diocesan Healing Through the Body of Christ Cancer Ministry, died July 16. She was 42. Faithful Catholic Sun readers may remember her name or a bit of her struggle with Stage IV breast cancer. She was featured in a 2007 article on cancer ministries and mentioned in a 2006 [...]


May 14, 2009

CDA prayer request cards

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : From the Staff, Local News

  Just a real quick “thank you” for reading and interacting with The Catholic Sun. Even though we’re trying to be more multimedia, it’s affirming to know many still enjoy holding and reading The Sun. We spend the bulk of our time on the paper and your feedback is our affirmation. Some of our recent [...]


April 22, 2009

Catholic media

Posted by : ambria

  It’s been an unusual week or so around here when it comes to Catholic media and social networking. Here are some highlights: On the same day (April 17) that CatholicTV sent me a press release about how the 50-year-old full-time television station — the first in the world to air 24/7 — uses Twitter [...]