As I meditated on St. Luke’s gospel story about the fishing expertise of Jesus, I recognized a couple of good examples to point out for all folks who would like to...
Thursday, July 17, 20140176Summer is now officially here, and we Texans know that many hot days soon follow. Stay cool! Take a vacation. Relax and pray for more rain. It has been just long enough...
Thursday, June 12, 20140362As the world peeked in at the preparations and the schedule of Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land, there were many speculations made concerning what impact this...
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...
Friday, April 25, 20140685With the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, my thoughts have turned way back to the days when we didn’t have the image of a really “hip” pontiff to...
On my way to the funeral of the outstanding Cistercian theologian, Father David Balás, I heard a radio commercial urging Texas to stop the “invasion of its...Father Timothy Gollob
On May 13, 1917, three shepherd children in the little Portuguese town of Fatima were astonished to be visited by a beautiful woman who spoke to them about a heavenly...Father Timothy Gollob
I am writing this column on the holiday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It seems like a good time to do a little remembering of the events of the late 1950s and the early...
Friday, January 3, 20140139Recently it was announced that our own Pope Francis had been selected from a far-flung field of newsmakers and news-shakers to be the cover person on TIME magazine. One...