Wednesday, June 18, 20140290A vision from the past is now a reality as Catholic Charities of Dallas on June 14 held a grand opening for the Santa Clara Regional Community Center. The facility, located adjacent to Santa Clara of Assisi Catholic Academy at 321 Calumet Ave. in Dallas, will provide educational and recreational opportunities for children in West Dallas.
Friday, June 13, 20140188During their June 11-13 spring general assembly in New Orleans, the nation's Catholic bishops voted to extend their Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty and to approve work on a limited revision of their quadrennial document aimed at guiding Catholics in election decisions. They also were urged to promote and support Catholic families...
After the Sanctus, the thanksgiving prayer to the father through the son continues and leads us to the epiclesis, a solemn invocation of the Holy Spirit to consecrate the gifts of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
Saturday, May 31, 20140583On Saturday, May 31, four men were ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas as Bishop Kevin J. Farrell celebrated a Mass and Rite of Ordination at the Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, welcoming Father Kevin Charles Wilwert, Father Martin Mbugua Mwangi, Father Juan Carlos Marín Cortés and Father Luca Simbula. Each...
Friday, May 9, 20140437On a recent afternoon, Veronica Aviles turned her wheelchair into the Crime Analysis Division of the Midwest City Police Department. Officers greeted their department intern with appreciative grins as she powered her chair into position at a desk that held computers. Aviles, a 2009 graduate of Bishop Dunne Catholic School who attended...
Friday, April 25, 20140197Just days before Pope Francis canonizes two of his predecessors in a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, Romans are bracing for the arrival of as many as 3 million outsiders. Nineteen heads of state, 24 prime ministers and 23 government ministers from various countries are due in Rome April 27-28 for the canonization of Blessed John XXIII...
Thursday, April 24, 20140126Catholics in parishes throughout the Diocese of Dallas marked the 2014 Holy Week and Easter with faithful celebration. Beginning on Palm Sunday and all the way through Easter Sunday Masses, The Texas Catholic was on hand to photograph parish Easter season celebrations.
Monday, March 17, 20140371A strong thread of purpose ran through the chitchat and laughter in the parish hall adjacent to St. Joseph Catholic Church on a recent Wednesday night. Eighteen members of the parish’s Catholic Student Organization for the Texas A&M-Commerce campus discussed plans for the group’s Good Friday Living Stations of the Cross while the...
Wednesday, March 5, 20140275Thousands of Catholics, from teachers, students and parents at Diocese of Dallas schools to workers downtown and in other areas, flocked to Masses across North Texas, initiating the Lenten season by receiving ashes on their foreheads during Ash Wednesday services.
Friday, February 7, 20140240The U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops in February is issuing a call to prayer for life, marriage and religious liberty. USCCB asks Catholics to observe National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14) as “an opportunity to celebrate Jesus’ love demonstrated through the love of husband and wife — gift and blessing of marriage.
