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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
March 2, 2010

Tribunal launches new Web site

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

Annulments aren’t fun — not for kids, not for parents, not for friends. But, as I’ve seen in my own family, annulments heal old wounds.
You can find out a lot more about annulments on the Phoenix Diocese’s Tribunal Web site, launched today.
It’s an effort to “be more present to the People of God,” according to Nicole [...]


February 19, 2010

ACC: ‘Positive movement on many bills’ in the Arizona Legislature

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

The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would extend the deadline for making contributions to school tuition organizations, the Arizona Catholic Conference reported today.
The legislation, HB 2496, would extend the deadline to April 15 of the following year, giving Arizona taxpayers more time to contribute to tuition credit programs like the Catholic Tuition [...]


December 22, 2009

New blog reaches fallen away Catholics

Posted by : ambria

I happened to run across a relatively new blog today. It’s from Catholics Come Home, the lay apostolate that uses Mass media– namely TV commercials  and an interactive Web site– to reach fallen away Catholics.
CatholicsComeHome.org has been a domain name since 2004 and went live in 2008. People in every U.S. state and some 80 [...]


December 5, 2009

Phoenix at 40 – part 4

Posted by : ambria

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted wrote extensively in The Catholic Sun about the Diocese of Phoenix at 40, namely the impact of Vatican II, which ended shortly before the diocese was established.
Those articles are below, but first here’s a look at what other church leaders had to say about the impact of Vatican II on the [...]


October 15, 2009

Show time for high school fall plays

Posted by : ambria

A couple of Catholic high schools sent us press releases about their upcoming fall plays. They’re listed in our Sunbeams section of our Oct. 15 issue.
To be fair, I thought I’d list them all here as well:

The Music Man — A salesman hoodwinks and charms a small Iowa town in 1912. Presented by Brophy and [...]