Category: LOCAL

  • July 3, 2013

‘Sun’ brings home 10 awards from Catholic Media Conference

The Catholic Sun won first place for reporting on religious liberty and second place for www.catholicsun.org, among eight...
  • July 2, 2013

Prescott parish praying for pastor, local firefighters

The hearts of Sacred Heart parishioners are heavy right now. Their pastor, Claretian Father Daryl Olds, suffered a...
  • July 2, 2013

Arizona fire rages as slain hotshot crew members are mourned

As the people of central Arizona mourned the deaths June 30 of 19 firefighters from the Granite Mountain...
  • July 2, 2013

Yarnell’s Catholic community, shrine in limbo as fire rages

As far as Fr. Raul Lopez can tell, the Yarnell Hill fire lines have not reached St. Mary...
  • June 28, 2013

Arizona Catholic Conference 2013 Legislative Wrap-Up

On June 14, the Arizona Legislature adjourned sine die at 12:59 a.m. after spending 151 days in session,...
  • June 26, 2013

Catholic leaders respond to Supreme Court ruling on marriage

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 26 that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Catholic...
  • June 26, 2013

Bishop Olmsted responds to Supreme Court marriage decision

The U.S. Supreme Court had the chance to uphold the importance of marriage and its fundamental role in...
  • June 20, 2013

Our Faith: Priestly Celibacy: Learning the Catholic discipline

In what continues to be a paradox in an immoral society, celibacy in the Roman Catholic priesthood is...
  • June 19, 2013

Family, friends supported newly ordained priests

Fr. Kurt Perera knows his hands were made to do the Lord’s work. That’s how the moment he...
  • June 18, 2013

Cristofer Pereyra: Radio host shares story of conversion, call to holiness

By the world’s standards, Cristofer Pereyra was doing well. He’d emigrated from Peru at age 15, graduated from...