{"id":84287,"date":"2026-07-10T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84287"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:35:56","slug":"affordable-hotspot-popular-with-americans-fleeing-liberal-new-york-and-los-angeles-experiences-huge-catholicism-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/affordable-hotspot-popular-with-americans-fleeing-liberal-new-york-and-los-angeles-experiences-huge-catholicism-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Hotspot Popular With Americans Fleeing Liberal New York And Los Angeles Experiences Huge Catholicism Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A popular Southwest city known for attracting Americans fleeing liberal New York and Los Angeles is undergoing a surge in Catholic converts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Phoenix,\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-0cbd5790-7bad-11f1-9bec-7de870e15d81\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/arizona\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Arizona<\/a><\/span>, has seen the sharp rise in Catholics, with the local diocese growing to more than two million parishioners in recent years, the Arizona Republic\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/phoenix\/2026\/07\/08\/catholic-converts-grow-arizona\/90501204007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0The Phoenix location is now the second-largest Catholic diocese in the country, trailing only the Archdiocese of\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-b5981e40-7bad-11f1-9bec-7de870e15d81\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/los-angeles\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles<\/a><\/span>, according to the 2025 Official Catholic Directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): A popular Southwest city known for attracting Americans fleeing liberal New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84288,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84287\/revisions\/84288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}