Tuesday, November 19, 20130342As they walked through the Sixth Floor Museum on Nov. 13, history students from Bishop Lynch High School got their first tangible glimpse of what happened on Nov. 22, 1963, a day remembered as a painful part of Dallas’ history.
Friday, November 8, 20130317The ill-fated Kennedy motorcade, Lee Harvey Oswald’s perch on the sixth floor, the grassy knoll, the “Badge Man,” the “Umbrella Man” and the Moorman Polaroid all vividly came to life on Oct. 29 for 11 Cistercian history students when Father Anthony Bigney took his class studying the assassinations of Presidents Kennedy and...
Friday, November 8, 20130363Fifty years ago, a sparkling city shifted in seconds to a heartsick shadow of its former self. When Dallas became the scene of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, the death in Dealey Plaza eclipsed facets of the city’s image as a growing and nimble business center. A reeling, grief-stricken world began to...
Friday, November 8, 20130207I like to write about good things. The Boy Scouts of America is one of the great treasures that is a part of many of our parishes in the Diocese of Dallas. This came to my mind as I reflected on the recent death of Lewis Duca, the father of Bishop Mike Duca who is Bishop of Shreveport and a priest of this diocese. Mr. Duca was “Mr....
Monday, October 28, 20130214The mission of the Catholic Church will continue to be centered on Christ and Catholics must open up their hearts, receive a "spiritual pacemaker" from the Holy Spirit and be more like the "good Samaritan" to carry out God's will, Honduran Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga told attendees at a ministry conference Oct. 25.
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By Cathy Harasta
The Texas Catholic
Bishop Kevin J. Farrell recently sat down with Texas Catholic reporter Cathy Harasta for a Q&A, offering his reflections on President John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic U.S. president, and what he meant to Ireland, the bishop’s homeland, and to the world.
What impression did JFK and...
Friday, October 25, 20130489Growing up under the yoke of Soviet-controlled Hungary, Cistercian monks at Our Lady of Dallas said their experience taught them harsh lessons about the fruits of communism and the political realities that made a Western confrontation with it difficult for President John F. Kennedy and the United States.
Friday, October 25, 20130259A young First Family, captivating and chipper, reinvented life in the White House during John F. Kennedy’s 34-month presidency in the early 1960s. The Rose Garden flourished with First Lady Jackie, striking in Oleg Cassini designs, endearing children named Caroline and John-John, and even a pet pony, Macaroni—a gift from Vice...
Friday, October 25, 20130225IRVING— Business is getting a major boost at the University of Dallas. On Oct. 24, university President Thomas W. Keefe announced a $12 million gift to the university’s business program, made by Dallas entrepreneurs and alumni Satish and Yasmin Gupta.
Friday, October 25, 20130478In November 1963, the Catholic community in Dallas was very different from what it is today. We were bigger, but we were also smaller; bigger in the size of the diocese, which was then known as the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth, but smaller in the number of Catholics. In 1963 there were 60 counties in the diocese with a Catholic...
