The Catholic Sun

This fall, Catholic social teaching is coming to life at Bourgade Catholic High School in Phoenix. The school recently instituted a uniquely Catholic career...

The Diocese of Phoenix would like to thank Mike and Sheila Geddes as Guardians of Hope for this years’ Night of Hope. We are...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After dozens of people were killed and billions of dollars in damages were suffered due to a hurricane that hit Mexico's Pacific coast, Pope Francis expressed his condolences and prayed that Christians would contribute, in a spirit of charity, to the reconstruction of affected areas. The pope was "deeply saddened to learn of the natural disaster that is affecting the coasts of Guerrero" in southern Mexico, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, wrote in a telegram to Archbishop Leopoldo González González of Acapulco Oct. 27.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Since the Gospel message touches every aspect of a person's life, it must be proclaimed in a way people can understand, Pope Francis said. At his weekly general audience Oct. 25, the pope looked at the lives of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, two brothers from ninth-century Greece who became missionaries in central Europe. St. John Paul II named them co-patrons of Europe and wrote the encyclical "Slavorum Apostoli" ("The Apostles of the Slavs") about them, affirming Eastern Europe's Christian culture.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- People coming from cultures that promote consumerism over caring for the planet should look to Indigenous communities as models for developing an ecologically conscious mentality, the first cardinal from the Amazon region said. "To save the Amazon is to save the whole planet," Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, told Catholic News Service Oct. 23. "The Amazon really is a symbol, a symbol of the need to change our mentality, to be less consumeristic, to chase after money less."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa, an 18th-century consecrated lay woman from Argentina. The Vatican press office said the pope signed the decree, which clears the way for her canonization, during an audience Oct. 24 with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

When I was in third grade I attended public school, and I was having difficulty focusing in my classes. Eventually my teacher recommended special education as the right next step for me, but my parents thought I might need a different learning environment instead. So, they moved me and my older sister to Most Holy Trinity Catholic school. 

Dominic Bui, a seminarian for the Diocese of Phoenix, took another step closer to the priesthood on Saturday, October 21, when he was instituted as lector at Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, Texas.

While other professional sport franchises or leagues have seemingly chosen to forgo the presence of God and prayer before play, motorsports are one of few sports entities to ceremonially open their events with prayer.  NASCAR continues their long-standing tradition of leading prayer before each race, keeping God at the center of their sport. 

The Very Reverend Fr. Peter Boutros, pastor of St. John of the Desert Melkite Catholic Church, has a word of caution for those who might be glued to the news emanating from Israel as the crisis in the Middle East deepens. “We need to start looking at things a little bit more, look at the depth of things, not just lump everybody together,” Fr. Boutros said.