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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
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 [...]


October 20, 2009

Silence today

Posted by : ambria

If some of the people around your work or school seem unusually silent today, there’s good reason for it.
Students at 80 schools in Arizona are joining more than 3,700 nationwide in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity today. They’re not speaking today as a visual reminder of the 50 million voices that have fallen silent since [...]


October 9, 2009

Pro-life work

Posted by : ambria

St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, recently sent us a story about Grace Lape. The former Holy Spirit parishioner in Tempe expects to graduate from the all-girls college in the spring, but it was her pro-life work that recently made headlines at the school.
Co-president of the Right to Life Club, Lape spent the summer [...]


June 28, 2009

Empty chairs at graduation

Posted by : ambria

I noticed a photo and story in another diocesan newspaper lately that struck me.
Most graduation stories — like in The Catholic Sun — talk about how many were filled. This one focused on how many were empty. Apparently every year at a Catholic school in the St. Louis area, students drape six empty chairs in their school’s T-shirt. [...]


June 25, 2009

Crossroads of the Heart

Posted by : ambria

 
I remember watching some film in junior college about a woman who got pregnant, largely without her consent. My class had to watch and write a persuasive paper on the seemingly eternal abortion debate featured in the film.
The film’s character didn’t want to carry the baby to term at first, but had a change of [...]