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Restoring testaments of faith Diocese

Restoring testaments of faith

Friday, November 10, 20170314 Along the country roads near the northern rim of Waco, dairy farms and horse ranches abound on the way to the clustered artists’ workshops that anchor Stanton Studios’ 25-acre property. Distinctive buildings house the creative and technical energy of owner Bryant Stanton and his 13 staff members, who work in wood, glass and metal....
Bishop Lynch students build sustainable garden Diocese

Bishop Lynch students build sustainable garden

Sunday, November 5, 20170140 Under the direction of Kristie Wainwright, students have erected a sustainable garden at Bishop Lynch High School. Students revamped the campus courtyard, planting vegetables, herbs and other plants while also erecting compost piles. All of the compostable materials come from the campus, including scraps from the cafeteria, recycled...
Father Bayer: Let us all say ‘yes’ to solidarity Columnists

Father Bayer: Let us all say ‘yes’ to solidarity

Thursday, October 5, 2017079 A story. Some time ago I had lunch with a black friend in a major city. I asked him what it was like when he first met the couple that informally adopted him by mentoring him after he aged out of foster care. He said something like, “During the first six months I was suspicious, because I had been burned many times before, but then I...
Cardinal Farrell suggests couples better at marriage prep than priests Nation

Cardinal Farrell suggests couples better at marriage prep than priests

Thursday, October 5, 20170142 Marriage ministry needs to be done by married couples because priests have “no credibility in this area,” Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, told a church gathering. Delivering the keynote address to 500 delegates at the Faith and Life convention in Belfast Sept. 30, Cardinal Farrell...
Bishop Kelly: Blessed Stanley Francis Rother: Priest and Martyr Columnists

Bishop Kelly: Blessed Stanley Francis Rother: Priest and Martyr

Thursday, October 5, 20170123 The Mass for the Beatification of Father Stanley Francis Rother took place at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City on Sept. 23. Over 15,000 attended. Father Rother was a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City who was martyred in Guatemala in July of 1981. He is the first martyr born in the United States to be beatified and the...
Father Esposito: Hail Mary, Untier of Knots and Unifier of the Times Columnists

Father Esposito: Hail Mary, Untier of Knots and Unifier of the Times

Thursday, October 5, 20170121 By Father Thomas Esposito Special to The Texas Catholic October is the month of the Rosary in the Roman Catholic tradition. Dedication to this devotion, and in particular its faithful recitation in October, is due largely to the victory of the Catholic Western powers over the Ottoman Empire at the naval battle of Lepanto on Oct....
Las Vegas Catholic churches, schools respond to shooting with prayers Nation

Las Vegas Catholic churches, schools respond to shooting with prayers

Thursday, October 5, 2017063 Students at St. Viator Parish School in Las Vegas began school Oct. 2 -- hours after the mass shooting in that city -- by praying the rosary together in the school gym. The school is just three miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, the location of most of the city's largest hotels and casinos, and the site of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at a...
Pope: True Christians must remain hopeful, not 'whiny and angry' Pope Francis

Pope: True Christians must remain hopeful, not 'whiny and angry'

Wednesday, October 4, 2017076 Real hope lies in the proclamation of Jesus' death and resurrection, not just with one's words but also in deeds, Pope Francis said. Christians are called to be witnesses of the resurrection through "their way of welcoming, smiling and loving" instead of just "repeating memorized lines," the pope said Oct. 4 during his weekly general...
Parish’s nightly devotion honors Our Lady of Fatima Diocese

Parish’s nightly devotion honors Our Lady of Fatima

Wednesday, October 4, 20170985 For more than four years, St. William Catholic Church’s parishioners and some of the faithful from far beyond Texas have gathered nightly for a 9 p.m. outdoor Bible study and rosary procession honoring Our Lady of Fatima. Father Paul Weinberger, pastor of St. William since 2004, said that he expects particularly high participation on...
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