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Julian Nabozny: Business owner keeps faith at the center of his work
Julian Nabozny joined nearly 50 pilgrims on the Diocese of Phoenix Year of Faith pilgrimage to Mexico City and Guanajuato. (J.D. Long-Garcia/CATHOLIC SUN) Julian Nabozny, owner of five Phoenix-area...
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CATHOLICS MATTER: Leila Miller: Popular blogger teaches simple truths of...
Leila Miller (Joyce Coronel/CATHOLIC SUN) Parish: St. Joan of Arc, Phoenix Apostolates: Motherhood, FOCCUS mentor couple, LittleCatholicBubble.blogspot.com The glue that holds her faith together: It...
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Q&A: Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda is Catholic to the core
Tommy Lasorda spoke to students and parents at Seton Catholic Preparatory March 8 in a bid to raise money for the school’s athletic program and booster club. (Courtesy Cindi Friedl) Tommy Lasorda, the...
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CATHOLICS MATTER: Adela Gaxiola – Hunger for God steers immigrant toward...
Joyce Coronel/CATHOLIC SUN BUCKEYE — Growing up in Chihuahua, Mexico, Adela Gaxiola longed to go to church, but her father wouldn’t allow it. “When anyone in the family spoke of God, he would get...
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CATHOLICS MATTER: George Moore – Finding joy through prayer, serving the poor
George Moore, a parishioner at St. Theresa in Phoenix, reaching out to the needy, spends his time making home visits and delivering food boxes through the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Growing up in...
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CATHOLICS MATTER: Henry Cappello — Serving the poor and sharing the love of God
Henry Cappello is a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tempe and founded Caritas in Veritate International. (Joyce Coronel/CATHOLIC SUN) Henry Cappello travels to places most people will only...
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CATHOLICS MATTER: Bob DeRosa — Retired firefighter performs rescues of a...
Bob DeRosa Bob DeRosa spent more than two decades as a New York City firefighter, rushing into people’s homes at their darkest hour. Since moving to Arizona and joining Holy Spirit parish 22 years ago,...
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CATHOLICS MATTER: Carolyn Diercksmeier — Woman’s uncommon life story focused...
Carolyn Diercksmeier is a parishioner at Our Lady of Joy Parish in Carefree. Growing up in New Haven, Conn., Carolyn Diercksmeier’s life was colored with the rich hues of abiding Catholic faith. “In...
View ArticleCATHOLICS MATTER: Bridgette Cosentino — Corporate exec turned stay-at-home...
Growing up with a single mom on welfare in Brooklyn, Bridgette Cosentino’s childhood wasn’t easy. Though she was baptized Catholic and attended Catholic school, faith was not central to her life. The...
View ArticleCATHOLICS MATTER: Craig Colson — Musician uses gift to draw people closer to God
Craig Colson has spent most of the last 20 years inside Catholic churches. It wasn’t always like that though. Growing up in Suffren, New York, he dreaded going to church. Mostly, he said, it was the...
View ArticleCATHOLICS MATTER: Tom Perna — Devotion to Our Lady sparks ‘Mondays with Mary’
Tom Perna loves school, but he wasn’t always like that. His blog posts, “Mondays with Mary,” teach Catholics about the Blessed Virgin Mary. A former high school theology teacher, Perna is director of...
View ArticleCATHOLICS MATTER: Rosemary Dougherty — Boundless energy to serve others, feed...
Rosemary Dougherty credits her 12 years of Catholic education and the strong faith and family bonds nurtured in her first-generation Italian American home for helping her weather the storms of life....
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CATHOLICS MATTER: Bernie Capulong — Avondale man loses almost everything but...
Bernie Capulong (Joyce Coronel/CATHOLIC SUN) Six years ago, Bernie Capulong thought he had it all. A stunningly successful businessman who owned five homes, he traveled the world, drove a Porsche and...
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Wake up the World: Q & A with Sr. Mary Beata Im
Sr. Mary Beata Im grew up the youngest of six children in South Korea, where only 13 percent of the population is Catholic. She entered religious life in 1991 and today directs the religious education...
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Wake up the World: Q&A with Fr. Bradley Peterson, O.Carm
Fr. Bradley Peterson, O. Carm., seen here Jan. 16 outside St. Agnes Parish in Phoenix where he is pastor, lauded St. Therese of Lisieux’s “Little Way”. “Her way does not require some superhuman to do...
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Wake Up The World: Q&A with Sr. Mary Claire Strasser, SOLT
Sr. Mary Claire Strasser, SOLT, pictured here Feb. 23 in her classroom at Most Holy Trinity, said she was deeply influenced by the Dominican Sisters who taught her. (Joyce Coronel/CATHOLIC SUN) Pope...
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Wake Up The World: Q&A with Sr. Mary Fidelis, PCPA
Sr. Mary Fidelis, PCPA discovered her vocation to the religious life while she was a teenager. The decision to become a nun “was the most natural response” to Christ’s complete giving of Himself in the...
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Wake Up The World: Q&A with Fr. Tom Doyle, CSC
Holy Cross Father Thomas Doyle, director of André House, stands in the kitchen of the downtown outreach to the homeless and poor that has been feeding both bodies and souls for 30 years. (Joyce...
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Wake Up The World: Q&A with Sr. Cecilia Schlaefer, CSA
Sr. Cecilia Schlaefer, CSA, was born into a family of musicians and has spent her 75 years of religious life sharing the joy of music with students, retirees and parishes. At 93, she’s still active...
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Five years a bishop — Q&A with Bishop Nevares
http://www.phoenixcatholicmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/BH-7-13-15.mp3 Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, displays an early five-year anniversary gift that...
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