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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
June 1, 2010

Nicky’s Week

Posted by : ambria

I just returned from a rather unusual vacation involving three one-way flights. For once, I put work completely on hold and instead of writing during take off on the first leg, I thumbed through the airline magazine. I reached page 20 as the plane lifted off the ground and paused to quiz my young traveling [...]


February 4, 2010

Catholic Schools work

Posted by : ambria

We’re in the middle of covering Catholic Schools Week, a national celebration Catholic schools held the last week of January to celebrate the quality and faith-filled education that Catholic schools provide. That has gotten us out of the office and visiting several schools to take pictures of various Masses and activities.That means we’ve also been [...]


August 14, 2009

More encounters of the papal kind

Posted by : ambria

And the more than 100 youth and young adults who traveled to Australia last summer thought they got close to the Church’s supreme leader. Check out how close a student from Pope John XXIII School in Scottsdale got to Pope Benedict XVI this summer. I ran across this photo while doing some random school research. [...]


December 23, 2008

A sense of geography

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : From the Staff

I got my Maggie’s Place newsletter, the Delivery Room, in the mail over the weekend. I can’t remember if it’s a monthly thing or a quarterly publication, but the “Christmas 2008″ issue made me feel a little bit better about a couple of things. First, it made me realize that I’m not the only one [...]


November 20, 2008

Thank you, principals

Posted by : ambria

Remember that old trick of learning to spell “principal” by thinking that “the principal of my school is my pal”? Well, today, see if you can’t find a way to really make the principal of your school or your child’s school feel special — like your pal — as it is National Catholic School Principal [...]