Tuesday, April 28, 20150239On a recent Saturday morning near Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas, Steve Dawson and a number of North Texas volunteers set up shop and began handing out free rosaries. Using a method as old as the Catholic Church itself, Dawson has made it his mission to re-present the Catholic Church to the world.
Saturday, January 17, 20150254More than 5,000 pro-life demonstrators gathered at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on Jan. 17 for the 2015 North Texas March for Life. The event was organized by the Dallas-based Catholic Pro-Life Committee in conjunction with the dioceses of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Friday, December 5, 20140443Chris Rebuck will become Bishop Lynch High School’s new president, effective July 1, 2015. Bishop Kevin J. Farrell made the announcement during a Dec. 5 all-school morning assembly at the campus. The hire of Rebuck means that for the first time in 33 years a new president will lead the school.
Monday, October 20, 20140216Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said on Oct. 20 that he followed the teaching of Christ and stepped in to house the fiancée of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan and three others for several weeks at a diocesan facility when no one else would.
Tuesday, September 30, 20140442Bishop Kevin J. Farrell presided at a Sept. 30 news conference as the Catholic Diocese of Dallas formally kicked off its $125 million capital campaign, “Our Faith…Our Future,” and celebration of the diocese’s 125th anniversary at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Friday, September 26, 20140308Forming young shepherds for the Catholic Church is something Father James Swift has been doing for the better part of his 36 years as a priest of the Congregation of the Mission, otherwise known as the Vincentians. “I love being a priest and I love doing seminary work,” Father Swift said. “It’s just that simple.”
Thursday, September 11, 20140276Couples with long, loving marriages truly serve God, embody Gospel values and fortify sagging cultural expectations, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell told an overflow crowd at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Sept. 6.
Friday, September 5, 20140149On Aug. 17, in front of an eager crowd that included donors, alumni, faculty, staff and students, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell formally dedicated and blessed the newly completed Leyden Complex for Arts and Athletics, as well as 28 newly renovated classrooms now in use at Bishop Lynch High School for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Nearly nine years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the home of her aunt and uncle in Slidell, La., Jenni Carmichael returned to New Orleans, a place she calls her second home; and for the second time, she brought a bus full of teen volunteers from St. Jude Catholic Church in Allen.
