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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
August 15, 2011

WYD pilgrims: Blog central

Posted by : ambria

World Youth Day officially gets underway tomorrow. That means, at long last, the hundreds of pilgrims from the Phoenix Diocese wrapped up their earlier rounds of pilgrimages to places like Rome, Assisi, Santiago and so on and are starting another. This time, instead of the 15-35 fellow pilgrims they traveled with, they’ll find themselves in [...]


September 18, 2010

American missionary reflects on time in England, papal visit

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : Nation/World, Photos

Kristin Niedbala spent three months leading up to this week’s papal visit to England working with the local church there. The young adult missionary, who has also helped spearhead the Adore 2097 worship nights in Tempe in recent years, spent the summer serving young Catholics primarily in the Diocese of Westminster. That’s where Pope Benedict [...]


July 22, 2010

More summer missions

Posted by : ambria

Last week, 13 young adults left their homes in the Diocese of Phoenix and their comforts of modern technology for a 12-day mission trip to Haiti. Today, more Phoenix missionaries are crossing international lines in the name of the Gospel. Eleven young adults from Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral are headed to South Africa through [...]