Catholic Charities de Corpus Christi anima a las familias que tienen niños inmigrantes indocumentados a perseguir una autorización de trabajo de dos años en virtud de la política que gobierno federal anunció el pasado verano conocido como “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” o Acción Diferida para Llegadas Infancia.
Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi encourages families who have undocumented immigrant children to pursue a two-year work authorization under the federal government’s policy announced last summer known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Incarnate Word Academy senior Annabelle Dura has earned a Gold Key in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in the Southwest Writing Region-At-Large Division.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The last general audience in St. Peter's Square turned into a farewell party with balloons, flowers, flags, posters, cheers, standing ovations and a touching thank-you speech from Pope Benedict XVI.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Incarnate Word Academy girls’ varsity basketball team (28-10) will play in the TAPPS 3-4A regionals playoff game against St. Dominic Savio Catholic High School from Austin. The playoff game will be at Floresville High School in Floresville, Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m.
The man cardinals choose as the next pope must be someone with the requisite energy and mastery of modern communications media to promote a revival of the faith in increasingly secular societies around the world, said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington.
Popes are elected by members of the College of Cardinals, not by the general Catholic population and certainly not by the media. Yet Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan's presence on practically every journalist's list of potential next popes bespeaks a real and important influence among his peers.
Pope Benedict XVI will continue to be known as Pope Benedict and addressed as "His Holiness," but after his resignation, he will add the title "emeritus" in one of two acceptable forms, either "pope emeritus" or "Roman pontiff emeritus."
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In one of his last public appearances, Pope Benedict XVI told an overflow crowd in St. Peter's Square Feb. 24 that his upcoming retirement does not mean he is abandoning the church, but that he will be serving it in a new way, through prayer and meditation.
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Por más que él asombrara al mundo cuando anunció su renuncia el 11 de febrero, en retrospección la decisión del papa Benedicto XVI parece casi predecible. Dado sus declaraciones previas sobre el tema y sus recientes señales de envejecimiento, uno podría decir que la gente debió verlo venir.
by Carol Glatz y Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Diciendo que ya no tiene la fortaleza para ejercer el ministerio sobre la iglesia universal, el papa Benedicto XVI anunció el 11 de febrero que estará renunciando a fin de este mes después de un pontificado de ocho años.
Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey, Bishop of Corpus Christi, will be featured in the national distributed American Catholic Radio on the third Sunday of Lent, March 3. The half-hour program features Bishop Mulvey delivering a homily and participating in an interview with the program’s host.
In trying to help people understand how belief in God is a natural part of life and provides grounding for the values that protect human dignity and peaceful coexistence, Pope Benedict XVI saw Jews and Muslims as natural allies.
A U.S. District Court judge Feb. 8 dismissed a lawsuit filed against the federal contraceptive mandate by the Springfield and Joliet dioceses, their respective Catholic Charities agencies and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
On Wednesday, Feb. 13, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass at Corpus Christi Cathedral and urged the faithful not to let Lent end at the end of the Mass or the end of the day, but to live it for 40 days in the desert in silence, listening and making a decision to follow Jesus Christ.
Celebrating what was expected to be the last public liturgy of his pontificate two weeks before his resignation, Pope Benedict XVI preached on the virtues of humility and Christian unity and heard his highest-ranking aide pay tribute to his service to the church.
It is a positive fact that one day all of us will leave the bounds of time and enter into the limitless realms of eternity. The light of heaven will reveal to us things that eye has not seen, ear has not heard and the mind of man has not conceived.
Saying he no longer has the strength to exercise ministry over the universal church, Pope Benedict XVI announced Feb. 11 that he would be resigning at the end of the month.
For the past 15 years, Catholic parishes throughout the Palestinian territories and many in Israel have been celebrating Easter on the Greek Orthodox date. Now, following a directive from the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, within two years all Eastern Catholics and the Latin Patriarchate in the Holy Land will officially adopt the Greek Orthodox Julian calendar date.