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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
July 6, 2011

40 more days

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : Media/Arts, Nation/World, Video

The next World Youth Day celebration with Catholic youth and the Church’s leaders — including the pope — gets underway in 40 days. Here’s an upbeat video that both recounts the history of World Youth Day and will make you anticipate its opening Mass in Madrid, Spain as if it were Christmas: If you’re not [...]


June 9, 2011

Pope Benedict, Manga hero

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : Media/Arts, Nation/World

A California-based manga comic producer worked with a John Paul the Great University student to create a special comic book for World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain this summer. There was a book signing for “Habemus Papam” at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington earlier this year. Johnathan Lin, [...]


August 18, 2010

My papal persona

Posted by : ambria

I recently changed personas. Every time I surf the Internet using my Firefox browser, I now have the papal flag hanging over me (as well as the creed in Latin across the bottom of my browser). According to Firefox’s Personas page, I’m one of eight people worldwide decorating my browser window in this fashion. I [...]