Friday, October 21, 20160202Sometime in my early scholastic years, I developed a sense that education was a competitive game. One was asked to know the correct answers to questions. It was not of primary importance that one knew all the ins and outs of what was being asked. What got you points was the precise, correct answer.
Friday, October 21, 20160301More than two weeks after the departure of former Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell for Rome, Auxiliary Bishop Greg Kelly is holding down the fort as the Diocese of Dallas waits to find out who will become its next bishop. On Sept. 27, Pope Francis named Bishop Kelly as the diocese’s apostolic administrator. It is a temporary appointment...
Monday, October 10, 20160142Choosing new members of the College of Cardinals, Pope Francis once again looked to countries and particularly to dioceses that were not and never had been represented in the body that advises the pope and bears responsibility for electing his successor. Announcing the names of 17 cardinals he will create Nov. 19, Pope Francis chose men...
Sunday, October 9, 20160331Pope Francis will conclude the Year of Mercy by creating 17 new cardinals, including three from the United States: Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, family and life; and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis. Announcing the names of the new cardinals Oct. 9,...
Friday, October 7, 20160260As students waited with gleeful anticipation, hundreds of balloons fell from the ceiling and filled the gymnasium at Prince of Peace Catholic School to celebrate it being named a 2016 National Blue Ribbon school. More than 840 students, faculty and staff packed the gymnasium for the celebration.
Conscience is a popular topic today. It seems to me that during my grandparents’ generation (I am 32), Catholics did not speak much about conscience. People then were probably more sensitive to the importance of being guided in their judgment by God, whose word is made known in the church. Judging by the stories people tell me, at its...
Monday, September 26, 20160164The biblical faith expressed in both Old and New Testaments does not lend authoritative support to those who draw a personal map to a God of their own devising.
Friday, September 23, 201601104St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church parishioner Carlos Liscano’s legacy in the education field will be honored in the fall of 2017 when the Frisco Independent School District is scheduled to open Carlos Liscano Elementary School. When he returned from Vietnam in 1968, Liscano felt a strong calling urging him to help. “I wanted to...
Friday, September 23, 20160229When Bishop Kevin J. Farrell departs for his new ministry at the Vatican in early October, he will leave behind, many Catholic faithful say, a diverse Diocese of Dallas that is more united, financially viable and charitable and poised for the future than the one he encountered when he first came here nearly 10 years ago.
Monday, September 12, 20160266When Mary Immaculate Catholic School principal Matthew Krause heard one of his students was going blind, he and the Mary Immaculate community wasted no time wrapping their arms around then-seven-year-old Zach Thibodeaux and his family. As far as Krause was concerned, Thibodeaux was “our brother.”
