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'I feel like God has blessed me'
Thursday, May 19, 2022028 A former Southern Baptist who converted to Catholicism nearly 30 years ago is scheduled for ordination into the diaconate on May 21. Daryl Avery, a Texan since birth, is one of 17 permanent deacon candidates and calls St. Monica in Dallas his parish...
Hundreds celebrate consecration of UD to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Sunday, May 15, 2022019 By Clare Venegas Special to The Texas Catholic A combined crowd of nearly 400 students, faculty, alumni, staff and friends of the University of Dallas gathered at the Irving campus on May 6 for a historic celebration and consecration of the...
Cistercian robotics team captures world championship
Friday, May 6, 20220113 Fusion Corps (FR 6672), the robotics team from Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving, won the 2022 FIRST Robotics Competition world championship as part of a four-team alliance. Of the six division winning alliances, Fusion Corps was the only...
Celebrating 90 years of fellowship and faith
Thursday, May 5, 2022021 Two lives immersed in the Catholic faith — one whose life journey has led to becoming a bishop, the other about to be further shaped following college graduation in a few weeks – were recognized when SMU’s Catholic Campus Ministry celebrated...More diocesan news
Seminarian awaits return to seminary in Ukraine
Francisco Moran said it was God’s will that motivated him as a 23-year-old working as an elementary school teacher’s aide in Navarro County to stand before thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and publicly commit to pursuing a vocation in the...
Monday, April 11, 2022
Tom and Sue Merkel to chair 2022 Bishop's Invitational Golf Tournament
The Catholic Diocese of Dallas has announced Tom and Sue Merkel will serve as the chairs for the 12th Annual Bishop’s Invitational Golf Tournament to be held Sept. 19, 2022 at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Las Colinas. In addition, the diocese...
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Sessions offer faithful chance to listen as well as be heard
The old adage that there is strength in numbers holds true for the Diocese of Dallas Synod.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
St. Rita school community rallies to support Ukraine
Agnès Denvir teaches Spanish and other foreign languages to fifth and sixth graders at St. Rita Catholic School. The French native speaks a dozen languages, can read about a half dozen more, yet struggled to find the proper words to describe the...
Monday, March 28, 2022
Serving with great joy and love
In the more than two decades that John and Dorrie O’Mara have been parishioners at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church of McKinney, they have donated their time and effort to various charitable causes. This year, they will receive the...
Sunday, March 27, 2022
‘We offer our prayers for peace’
A standing-room crowd filled the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe March 25 as Bishop Edward J. Burns joined Pope Francis and the universal Church in the Act of Consecration for Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Saturday, March 26, 2022