Friday, June 29 was the culmination of a full week of Vacation Bible School at St. Peter, Prince of the Apostle Parish. The campers had been busy all week with arts, crafts, learning, singing and praising Jesus. Art was displayed throughout the parish hall for the theme of this year’s Vacation Bible School, “The Vatican Express."
Russell Thomas Green earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest award of the Boy Scouts of America, at the Troop 1324 Eagle Scout Court of Honor held on April 22, in Spring, Texas.
ROME (CNS) -- On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Obama administration's health care law, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore warned an audience in Rome about what he characterized as the law's threat to religious freedom.
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Supreme Court's June 28 decision upholding the health reform law makes it even more urgent for Congress to act to fix the law's "fundamental flaws" on abortion funding, conscience protection and immigrants' access to health care, the U.S. bishops said.
When she was 12-years-old Gaby Pinedo asked Jesus to become her best friend. At the time she was attending a Catholic charismatic renewal prayer meeting with her family in their hometown of Mexico City. From that time forward Pinedo has been engaged in some form of evangelization and prayer.
Sister Mary Monica de la Rosa, IWBS, 81, died peacefully at Incarnate Word Convent on Saturday, June 16, following a lengthy illness. Loving family members and IWBS sisters surrounded her at the time of her death.
No stranger to the shelter, McGovern had been homeless before and had frequented the Mother Teresa Shelter years back. However, he was able to get back on his feet and go back to work. In February he lost his home to a fire. He suffered severe burns and spent several months recovering in San Antonio at the Brooke Army Medical Center only to come back to Corpus Christi and the Mother Teresa Shelter once again.
If there is one thing all students of history agree about Ss. Cyril & Methodius Parish in Corpus Christi is that it can adapt to change. In its 100-plus year history it has gone from being a parish founded for German farmers, to serving the Bohemian or Czech community, to today being predominantly a community whose ancestry is Mexican.
In the Church’s struggle for the protection of religious freedom, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey asked the people in the Diocese of Corpus Christi to pray. The bishop told a full Cathedral on July 21 that the Church is calling into question “secular tendencies that seek to limit the divine.”
As I approach the end of my second year as editor of the South Texas Catholic, I am somewhat surprised with all the change that has occurred in the publication during this time. At times it has seemed as if I was taking readers on a roller coaster ride.
ATLANTA (CNS) -- The new evangelization calls for using new forms of media to reach people in their everyday lives, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications said.
ATLANTA (CNS) -- During the public sessions of their spring meeting in Atlanta, the U.S. bishops received a 10-year progress report on their abuse charter, voted to draft a message on work and the economy, and heard reports about religious liberty issues in the United States and abroad.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) —Half a century after the start of the Second Vatican Council, the reform of the liturgy initiated there has not lost its power to stoke controversy.
by Most Rev. Wm. Michael Mulvey Bishop of Corpus Christi
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, as we wind down our “Fortnight for Freedom” and approach our country’s Independence Day, we need to take time to reflect on the task we are engaged in to preserve our religious liberty.
The master plan for the New Evangelization in Latin America is rather long—20-times longer than the Gospel of Mark, I’d guess. But in virtually every other respect it’s an entirely admirable piece of work that should be known throughout the world Church.
by Father Tadeueusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. National Bioethics Center
The use of ventilators can pose particularly challenging problems during end of life situations for families. When should we place a loved one on a ventilator?