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Pope: Enter the church with "your whole heart" Uncategorized

Pope: Enter the church with "your whole heart"

Thursday, June 5, 2014056 Those who insist others pray and believe exactly like they do, those who have alternatives to every church teaching and benefactors who use the church as a cover for business connections may call themselves Catholics, but they have one foot out the door, Pope Francis said.
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Seminar looks to 'Awaken the Spirit'

By Father Timothy Gollob Special to The Texas Catholic In the “Save the Date” section of The Texas Catholic, there are always a good many announcements of activities taking place in the various parishes of the diocese. We are all caught up in the ebb and flow of our own local parish, but these events can introduce us to other...
A salute to mothers Bishop Kevin Farrell

A salute to mothers

Monday, May 12, 2014043 May is the month of our mother. Those words from the familiar Marian hymn also have deep meaning when we celebrate Mothers’ Day on Sunday.
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The role of the Liturgy of the Word

After the hymn “Glory to God in the Highest,” the priest recites the opening prayer. On a specific feast this prayer sets the tone for the feast and indicates the reason for the celebration.
Group raises support, spirits at St. Philip the Apostle Diocese

Group raises support, spirits at St. Philip the Apostle

Monday, April 14, 2014085 For many years, decades probably, students and teachers at St. Philip the Apostle Catholic School have been doing without. A dwindling enrollment quickly illustrated its effect on the Pleasant Grove campus: lack of instructional supplies, outdated textbooks, age-old equipment and infrastructure, and low teacher pay, to name a few...
Pope: Which Gospel character are you? Uncategorized

Pope: Which Gospel character are you?

Monday, April 14, 2014050 Preceded by young people and clergy waving tall palm branches, Pope Francis began his Holy Week liturgies by encouraging people to ask themselves which personality in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' passion, death and resurrection they resemble most.
Faithful asked to see confession in a new light Diocese

Faithful asked to see confession in a new light

Monday, April 14, 2014099 As the Lenten season progresses towards Easter, pastors are extending an invitation to Catholics across the Diocese of Dallas: come back to confession. This Lenten season, as part of “The Light is ON for You!” initiative, each parish in the Diocese of Dallas will have confessions available April 16 to allow all Catholics to avail...
Pope apologizes for clerical sexual abuse Uncategorized

Pope apologizes for clerical sexual abuse

Friday, April 11, 2014051 "I feel called to take responsibility for all the evil some priests -- large in number, but not in proportion to the total -- have committed and to ask forgiveness for the damage they've done with the sexual abuse of children."
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