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Faith-based restorative justice program marks major milestone
By Annette Baird / Texas Catholic Herald The sense of loss, the rage, the depression, the anxiety; there are too many and yet no words to accurately describe the feelings of those left behind when a...
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Texas Dioceses Encourage Catholics to Pray, Act for Religious Liberty
Texas’ Catholic Dioceses will join the U.S. Bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom campaign to bolster religious liberty against government attempts to limit and redefine the Church’s public role. In the two...
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Fortnight for Freedom Opens at National Shrine of the Assumption
The Fortnight for Freedom celebration opened with a June 21 Mass at 7 p.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltmiore, celebrated by Archbishop...
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Bishop tells faithful ‘we cannot accept this mandate’
South Texas Catholic In the Church’s struggle for the protection of religious freedom, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey asked the people in the Diocese of Corpus Christi to pray. The bishop told a full...
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TX Catholic Voice: Dioceses Launch Fortnight for Freedom
June 25, 2012 Pastoral Messages from the Texas Bishops The Threat to Freedom of Religion, a Real and Present Danger Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller Archdiocese of San Antonio Religious...
View ArticleBishops Renew Plea to Congress and Administration to Repair Affordable Care Act
Supreme Court decision does not address fundamental flaws in the law Legislation still needed to fix conscience, abortion funding, immigration problems Today the United States Supreme Court issued a...
View ArticleGovernment has no place in defining religion, religious ministry
By Bishop Michael Pfeifer, OMI, Diocese of San Angelo In less than two months, the Standard-Times has featured another article by Bonnie Erbe—she seems to be a favorite of the local paper—in which...
View ArticleTexas Catholic Historical Journal Wins Catholic Press Awards
AUSTIN, Texas – Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture was honored by the Catholic Press Association with three awards for its 2011 issue, including winning a second place award for...
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TX Catholic Voice: Catholic Southwest Earns Press Awards, Religious Liberty...
July 9, 2012 Catholic Southwest Wins Press Awards Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture was honored by the Catholic Press Association with three awards for its 2011 issue, including...
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U.S. Bishops Voice Concerns on Farm Bill
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), along with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, expressed their concerns for the House Committee on...
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Benedictine Sisters Celebrate Fifty Years In Boerne
Send Us - A reflection by Sister Michael Brandt, OSB The Sisters arrived at their new home, the former Kronkosky Estate, in Boerne on August 15, 1962 prepared to do what they do best, work and...
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Folklife Mass promotes the diversity of cultures and unity of the spirit
Bishop Emeritus John W. Yanta of the Diocese of Amarillo served as celebrant of the Folklife Mass June 10, with Msgr. Lawrence Stuebben as concelebrant. Choirs in traditional native attire provided...
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Confirmation Class Travels to Cook Children’s Medical Center to Receive...
Joan Kurkowski-Gillen, North Texas Catholic Bishop Kevin Vann, Holy Angels pastor Fr. Tom Kennedy, and Olga Enriquez (far left, pose with members of the 2012 Confirmation class from Holy Angels Church,...
View ArticleBishops Welcome Inclusion Of Conscience Provisions In House Appropriations Bill
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/HHS “took a first, urgently needed step toward upholding rights of conscience and religious freedom in our health care system,” by including two key...
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Texas Bishops Conclude Fortnight in Defense of Religious Freedom
San Antonio Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantú hosted a forum for San Antonio's interfaith community. (Jordan McMorrough, Today's Catholic) Dioceses and parishes from across Texas enthusiastically...
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In El Paso, across nation Crowds rally for Religious Freedom
Combined staff and wire reports, Rio Grande Catholic Approximately 100 people rallied in downtown El Paso’s San Jacinto Plaza June 8 to proclaim their support for religious freedom in the United States...
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TX Catholic Voice: Conscience Battle Persists, Urge Texas Reps to Defend Liberty
July 25, 2012 Dioceses Wrap Up Liberty Fortnight Bishop Kevin Vann described the history of persecution toward Catholics to a group of Columbian Squires, an international youth group of the Knights of...
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Hundreds take part in Tepeyac’s Summer Institute
Tepeyac focuses on communion, participation, dialogue in marking council’s 50th anniversary Rio Grande Catholic Jesuit Father Richard Sotello outlines "Wisdom of the Desert Mothers and Fathers" for...
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Texas Monthly Response: Women Deserve Better
By Jennifer Carr Allmon, Associate Director, Texas Catholic Conference Sonogram Bill Signing Ceremony Texas women deserve better. Mimi Swartz missed the real story to be told about the sonogram bill—it...
View ArticleCardinal Urges Congress to Stand for Religious Freedom
As August 1 dawned, the federal government's mandate to coerce employers to provide contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization went into effect. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop of...
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