News - July 2022

Julie Fritsch Dumalet, director, Office of Pro-Life Activities for the Archdiocese, said the U.S. Supreme Court decision June 24 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization "is the end of an era and the beginning of a new one in a time where most women of child-bearing years have only known abortion as an option."

For more than 60 years, dozens of Italian-Americans on Galveston Island gathered at Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Holy Family Parish in Galveston to honor the Nativity of St. John the Baptist on June 23, the day before the actual feast.

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo gives permission to create the first-ever Hispanic Serra Club within the Archdiocese and the first ever in the United States.

Following months of facilitator trainings and listening sessions for the Synod on Synodality, the Archdiocese recently submitted a report reflecting the voluminous feedback and findings from thousands of voices in the local Church.

From Conroe to Lake Jackson, Sugar Land to downtown Houston, thousands of faithful took to the streets in procession for the June 19 feast of Corpus Christi across the Archdiocese.

Recent major gatherings provided an opportunity for acknowledging the importance of the Pontifical Mission Societies and dialogue for their future development.

Looking at the sacred heart of Jesus through the lens of trying to minister to the young people of our Church.

El Directorio para la Catequesis menciona que la catequesis en la vida de las personas es decisiva, especialmente cuando se menciona la catequesis de adultos, que sigue siendo prioritaria y que debemos poner todos nuestros esfuerzos para apoyar en esta área.

Varios eventos recientes brindaron la oportunidad de reconocer la importancia de las Obras Misionales Pontificias y entablar el diálogo para su desarrollo futuro.

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller offered prayers and reflections for “the souls of the 53 people who died in such a cruel, inhuman manner” and urging solidarity with the survivors and first responders.