Corporate donor gives $300K for private school scholarships
The country's largest mutual life insurance company is making a multi-year investment in Arizona students to ease financial burdens for families seeking quality, private...
Community mourns heroic ‘hotshot’ crew
The chain-link fence on the corner of 6th and East Z streets is covered with photographs and notes and American flags. The 300-foot makeshift memorial honors the 19 hotshot firemen who lost their lives battling the Yarnell Hill fire June 30.
Priest launches prayer group in home setting
CAMP VERDE — A new partnership with a local pastor brought a distinctively Catholic voice to a nearly 40-year-old Christian home for adults with developmental disabilities.
Church celebrates religious freedom with ‘Fortnight’
Freedom, according to Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, does not come from a government. It comes from God. “A government acts wrongly when it coerces its citizens to violate their consciences or pay a heavy price and penalty for faithfully following it,” he said in his June 22 homily at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral.
Bishop Olmsted marks 40 years of priesthood
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted celebrated a July 3 Mass in the Diocesan Pastoral Center chapel with the chancery staff a day after the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
‘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 other honors during the June 19-21 Catholic Media Conference.
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 massive stroke June 19. Two weeks later, he remains in intensive care in stable, but critical condition.
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 Hotshots, hundreds of other firefighters battled the still-uncontrolled blaze that threatened the small towns of Yarnell and Peeples Valley.
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 Mediatrix Mission. Yet. The state of the Shrine of St. Joseph is unknown.
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, capped by an emotionally charged debate focused on Governor Brewer’s Medicaid expansion proposal.