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Pope announces pre-synod meeting to listen to youths' hopes, doubts Pope Francis

Pope announces pre-synod meeting to listen to youths' hopes, doubts

Wednesday, October 4, 2017092 Pope Francis has invited Christian and non-Christian young people from around the world to a meeting in preparation for the Synod of Bishops on youth in 2018. Before concluding his weekly general audience, the pope said the March 19-24, 2018, pre-synod meeting will be an opportunity for the church to listen to the hopes and concerns of...
Bringing R-E-S-P-E-C-T to marriage Diocese

Bringing R-E-S-P-E-C-T to marriage

Sunday, October 1, 20170356 By David Sedeño The Texas Catholic Staff How to build a great marriage? R-E-S-P-E-C-T, not in the Aretha Franklin sense, Lowell and Connie Allen say, rather in the true meaning of the word as God intended. The Allens, members of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Richardson, have been married 50 years and celebrated with the...
Defend life, care for creation and give freely, pope says Pope Francis

Defend life, care for creation and give freely, pope says

Sunday, October 1, 2017076 Everyone, but especially young people, should have the "wonderful experience of giving" of their time and resources; giving open hearts and minds to brotherhood and sharing and is essential for building "the civilization of love," Pope Francis said. Endorsing the celebration in Italy of "Giving Day," which takes place Oct. 4, the feast...
Father Gollob: Lock our lives together to be bubbles of hope Columnists

Father Gollob: Lock our lives together to be bubbles of hope

Wednesday, September 20, 2017083 In the days just before the recent catastrophic hurricanes in Texas and Florida, there were many hours of warnings about what was about to happen. What so many have just lived through happened almost exactly as had been predicted. How did the weather forecasters get their knowledge? My good sailor father had a saying which he often...
Cristo Rey Dallas treks to help counterparts in Houston Diocese

Cristo Rey Dallas treks to help counterparts in Houston

Tuesday, September 5, 20170292 Cristo Rey Dallas College Prep President Kelby Woodard was anxiously awaiting word from his counterpart at Cristo Rey Jesuit in Houston on the school’s post-hurricane needs when a message finally appeared on Aug. 31. When he read it, Woodard’s heart sank. While Hurricane Harvey’s wrath largely spared Cristo Rey Jesuit’s school...
Father Gollob: A good role model for our youth Columnists

Father Gollob: A good role model for our youth

Tuesday, September 5, 2017070 As I write this column, there are preparations going forward in Oklahoma City for the beatification of a priest missionary to the Central American country of Guatemala. Father Stanley Rother has been acknowledged by Pope Francis as the first recognized martyr of the Catholic Church to have been born in the United States.Since he came...
Desire to help fuels trucking company’s relief efforts Diocese

Desire to help fuels trucking company’s relief efforts

Tuesday, September 5, 20170310 With only 10 followers on a Facebook page she created for Mike’s Delivery, a Palmer-based trucking company, Dianna Glenn was pessimistic about the chances of even a modest response to a call for donations she made on Aug. 28. By the end of the business day on Sept. 1, the company had filled four 18-wheelers with 95 pallets of donations...
St. Rita community answers call to help evacuees Diocese

St. Rita community answers call to help evacuees

Tuesday, September 5, 20170279 As Hurricane Harvey was in its final days wrecking the Gulf Coast, students, parents and parishioners at St. Rita Catholic Community knew time was of the essence and rushed to coordinate a response. The result was overwhelming and on Sept. 1, as parents dropped off students for school, they unloaded a multitude of donations from the...
Spirits swell as school rallies to support storm victims Diocese

Spirits swell as school rallies to support storm victims

Tuesday, September 5, 20170140 Even in Texas, sometimes life can be bigger than the game of football. That proved true for Bishop Dunne Catholic School, which was expected to kick off its 2017 season on Sept. 2 against Port Arthur Memorial High School as part of the Lone Star Classic in Port Arthur. The devastation Hurricane Harvey wreaked on South Texas when it made...
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