Liberal media. Right-wing media. Drive-by media. Mainstream media. Uninformed media. Chances are that you have heard all of these terms, and probably worse, particularly during the recent political season that polarized this country. With the...
Saturday, January 26, 20130300In retirement, Msgr. Don Fischer has shepherded his ministry into cyberspace and the hearts of people in 102 nations. Msgr. Fischer, who was ordained to the priesthood in 1967 and retired in 2010, launched a website in the spring of 2011 that has given his homilies a global reach. He said that he never expected to have faithful followers...
Thursday, January 24, 20130232Christmas morning has come and gone and we already 18 days into the new year. Some of us look forward in excitement to the possibilities of the unknown challenges that lay ahead this year, while others hold their breath as anxiety rushes through them in fear of what this year might bring.
A number of religious educators succumb to the conventional wisdom that little children cannot have true faith. Children—so this conviction goes—only repeat the words, mimic the gestures and actions of adults with very little understanding of what is meant by all this. So, they conclude, the catechesis of children does not merit much...
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Tuesday, January 22, 20130263The journey of Huy “Francis” Huynh’s life has had its share of tumultuous detours. Through it all, though, there has been one constant guiding the now 60-year-old along the way: his Catholic faith. “I think I’ve gone through life not carefree, but not worrying too much about where life will take me,” Huynh said. “I’ve...
Tuesday, January 22, 20130295Victor Sandoval, center left, a student at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School in Richardson, won the Diocese of Dallas Spelling Bee on Jan. 15 at St. Paul the Apostle.The other finalists are, from left, Duy Voung, St. Patrick; Nicole Librea, St. Mark the Evangelist; Roman Michell, runner-up, St. Joseph-Richardson; Emily Baschab, Christ...
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MISSION TRIPS 2016
In the summer of 2016, 50 students and 25 chaperones from Dallas Catholic high schools traveled to Nicaragua for a 10-day mission trip.
PORTRAITS OF COURAGE
A look at the five Dallas law enforcement officers who gave their lives while protecting citizens during a mass shooting in downtown Dallas in July...