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Bishop Kevin Farrell

‘Tis the month of Our Mother

All too often we don’t appreciate until later in life how our mother’s love and wisdom shaped us into who we are. Navigating life as adults often awakens in us the many instances in our own childhood when a mother’s unconditional love carried us through the difficulties, real and imagined, encountered on the road to adulthood....
Pope: Only Holy Spirit can fill hearts thirsting for love Uncategorized

Pope: Only Holy Spirit can fill hearts thirsting for love

Wednesday, May 8, 2013057 The Holy Spirit is the living water that "quenches the thirst in our lives because he tells us that we are loved by God as his children, that we can love God as his children and with his grace we can live as children of God, like Jesus," Pope Francis said May 8 at his weekly general audience.
Bishop Seitz named to lead Diocese of El Paso Diocese

Bishop Seitz named to lead Diocese of El Paso

Monday, May 6, 20130149 Bishop Mark J. Seitz was introduced at a news conference in El Paso May 6 as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of El Paso and talked about how he was going to work with his brother priests to help build up the church in the region.
Bishop Douglas Deshotel

Sacrament of matrimony and the grace from God

Just as God creates out of love, it is in this environment of married loved that new human life is brought into existence. Cooperating with God, husband and wife become part of his plan for generating new life. True love begets new life. It is on this that the church bases its teaching on God’s design for married life.
Pope Francis welcomes back retired Pope Benedict Uncategorized

Pope Francis welcomes back retired Pope Benedict

Thursday, May 2, 2013064 For the first time in history, the Vatican is home to a pope and a retired pope. Pope Francis welcomed his predecessor, retired Pope Benedict XVI, to the Vatican May 2 outside the convent remodeled for the 86-year-old retired pontiff and five aides. Pope Francis and Pope Benedict entered the convent's chapel together "for a brief moment...
Columnists

Leap of faith calls us to use intellect and free will

The Christian’s leap of faith is never an irrational escape from reality, such as is typical of a sect or cult, which satisfy insecure people’s craving for belonging at the price of abandoning any critical thinking and surrendering to the “divine” leader their freedom of mind and will.
North Texas Catholic Men's Conference Uncategorized

North Texas Catholic Men's Conference

Tuesday, April 30, 2013068 The second annual North Texas Catholic Men's Conference was held April 27 at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Plano. Look for more coverage from the event in the May 10 print edition of The Texas Catholic.
The Catholic Foundation administers spring grants Diocese

The Catholic Foundation administers spring grants

Monday, April 29, 20130377 Father Salvador Guzmán didn’t hesitate to describe his feeling when Holy Family Catholic Quasi-Parish in Van Alstyne received its first grant from The Catholic Foundation on April 18 during the foundation’s spring grant ceremony at St. Mary of Carmel Community Center.
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