• Couple among more than 1,600 new Catholics over Easter Season
    May 10, 2022
    by Jo Ann Zuñiga, Texas Catholic Herald
    Corey and Mary-Margaret Howell have much to celebrate. They are a young married couple becoming new Catholics among more than 1,650 now in communion with the Church this Easter season in the Archdiocese.
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  • ‘A chance to live’: Texas bishops thankful Melissa Lucio’s execution is stayed
    May 10, 2022
    by Catholic News Service
    Catholic leaders were thankful that death-row inmate Melissa Lucio was granted a last-minute stay of execution on April 25, but they also said her sentence shows a failure in the use of capital punishment in the U.S.
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  • From academic to survival: A priest with ties to UST leads humanitarian efforts in Ukraine
    May 10, 2022
    by Special to the Herald
    When UST's dean of the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas – Houston (UST), came in contact with Father Volodymyr Malchyn in August of 2021, little did he know that in a matter of months their conversation topics would go from academics to surviva
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  • Following Jesus’s blueprint gives Church a beautiful vision in serving persons with disabilities
    May 10, 2022
    by Kerry McGuire, Herald Correspondent
    Jesus’s ministry gave a beautiful visual of how to help those in need in the community with learning differences, according to Melissa Alvarez of the Ministry with Persons with Disabilities of the Archdiocese.
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  • More than 1,000 poems submitted to Archdiocesan Middle School Poetry Contest
    May 10, 2022
    by Jo Ann Zuñiga, Texas Catholic Herald
    By writing inspiring poems on deep topics like visiting a patient suffering terminal illness or describing Christ on the cross, 16 Catholic school students won a recent poetry contest focusing on spiritual works of mercy.
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  • ‘Shroud of Turin’ presentations return in June
    May 10, 2022
    by Texas Catholic Herald
    Nora Creech, who is pursuing a certificate in Shroud Studies from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy, will be hosting a series of free presentations titled “Seeking the Face of Christ: How the Shroud of Turin Reveals God’s Love” at several locations in the Archdiocese in June.
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  • BOURQUE: ‘Do whatever He tells you’
    May 10, 2022
    by Renee and Manny Bourque
    Mary's message to the apostles and disciples of Jesus, "Do whatever He tells you," was important then and it's still relevant today.
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  • ALVAREZ: ¿Acaso no estoy yo aquí, que soy tu Madre?
    May 10, 2022
    by Melissa Alvarez, Ministry with Persons with Disabilities - Office of Evangelization and Catechesis
    ¿Cuándo pensamos en nuestra madre biológica, que atributos vienen a nuestra mente?
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  • 500 Years is a fount of faith for Filipino Catholics
    May 10, 2022
    by James Ramos, Texas Catholic Herald
    Nearly 500 members from the Filipino Catholic community in Galveston-Houston gathered at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston to honor the faith, culture and tradition from their homeland of the Philippine some 9,000 miles away.
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  • Seminarians win! Priests fall in fifth-annual Priest vs. Seminarians Basketball game
    May 10, 2022
    by Texas Catholic Herald
    In the fifth-annual Priest vs. Seminarians Basketball Game, held at Rice University’s Tudor Fieldhouse on April 29, the seminarians won over the priests with a score of 37 to 22, breaking the 2-2 tie.
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  • Catholic immigration advocates push for reform on Capitol Hill
    May 10, 2022
    by Catholic News Service
    Leaders in Hispanic Catholic ministry gathered in Washington in April to head to the halls of Congress to push lawmakers on some form of relief on immigration.
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  • Faithful Invited to Fast and Pray the Rosary in Midst of Tensions Over Draft Supreme Court Opinion
    May 10, 2022
    by USCCB
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  • Statement re: Supreme Court Draft Decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
    May 4, 2022
    by Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Julie Fritsch Dumalet
    The final decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, currently under review by the Supreme Court, may significantly alter the legal framework established by Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the nation in 1973.
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  • Archdiocese’s 175th anniversary celebrates with city of Houston and Galveston proclamations
    May 4, 2022
    by Texas Catholic Herald
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