The Catholic Sun

Have you ever encountered a pregnant woman during the season of advent? At first you may notice her big belly, waddling walk and, perhaps,...

PHOENIX --- There was a sense of anticipation beyond the coming celebration of Jesus’ birth at the Diocese’s mother church Sunday. Parishioners of Ss. Simon and Jude were still getting settled with the news nearly a month ago that the Cathedral Rector, the Very Rev. Fernando Camou is leaving next month. Saturday afternoon, they learned Bishop John P. Dolan has named Fr. Matt Henry, the current parochial vicar of St. Mary’s Basilica, to succeed him.

Program helps previously incarcerated integrate into the community Cottonwood, Ariz. - Catholic Charities Community Services recently expanded its re-entry housing program in the Northern...

After several years serving with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in California, Sister Adele O’Sullivan is back full-time at Circle the City,...

Kevin Bronson from Topeka, Kan., was attending the last day of a career and technical education conference at the Phoenix Convention Center on Dec....

I am embarrassed to say I approach Christmas with a bit of dread. It is NOT my favorite season. As a mom with kids at home, Christmas means there is so much more to do. Kids are home from school. The schedule is discombobulated. My life seems out of balance. I strive to do more (baking, decorating, shopping, wrapping, entertaining -- oh my) and yet seem to have less time to do it. My son’s words and the orientation of his heart are what I want this year. I want to be excited about Christmas - just because of Jesus.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Advent call for "vigilance" does not mean staying awake and watchful out of fear, but rather out of a longing for the coming of the Lord, Pope Francis wrote. Sometimes people think of vigilance "as an attitude motivated by fear of impending doom, as if a meteorite were about to plunge from the sky," he said in the text of his commentary on the Gospel reading for Dec. 3, the first Sunday of Advent.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "As you can see, I am alive," Pope Francis told a group of health care managers Nov. 30. At the brief meeting with participants in a seminar on the ethics of health care management, the pope said he was suffering from a "bronchial condition. Thank God it was not pneumonia," but he said it was a very serious bronchial infection. "I no longer have a fever, but I am still on antibiotics and things like that," he told the group.

Young Catholics gathered at St. Bernadette on Friday, Nov. 17, to launch the parish young adult program. The night began with a candlelight Mass...

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — The Franciscan Renewal Center recently received a generous grant from The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation to support the Mental...