News - March 2024

All over the world, Christians are preparing for Easter. On Good Friday, March 29 , parishes will take up the annual Good Friday Collection for the Holy Land.

As Lent ends, the Church locally and around the world begins its most sacred time of Holy Week from the celebration of Palm Sunday March 24 this year through Easter Sunday March 31.

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and ends at sundown on Easter Sunday. Our remembrance of the events surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus makes Holy Week the most sacred time of the year for Catholics.

As political and Church discourse continues around marriage and family life, a ministry in the Archdiocese is working to accompany same-sex attracted men and women living and worshiping in parishes around the region.

Among the many messages and presentations at a recent two-day conference on aging, Monsignor Chester Borski stood tall to echo Pope Francis’ understanding of the importance of listening to the elderly and meeting their spiritual needs.

A new traveling photography exhibit spotlights stories of foster children waiting for families.

At Angela House, staff and volunteers offer compassionate support to women transitioning from incarceration back into society.

For Christians, Easter is the summit of the entire liturgical year. All other feasts and solemnities in the Church’s calendar work toward the primacy of Easter.

We make our pilgrimage with great hope with all the faithful of the Church, living and deceased, and with all the Saints in heaven — beginning with the Mother of God.

Archdiocese joins nationwide prayer for the protection of women and pre-born children, and to end abortion

What happens when we pray to grow in our vocation through discernment?

Green, white and yellow ribbon tassels fluttered over the courtyard of St. Joseph Catholic Church off Kane Street near downtown Houston as parishioners gathered to celebrate the Solemnity of St. Joseph on March 19 with a Mass and St. Joseph altar devotion.

Texas Catholic and community groups are holding an event in El Paso called "Do Not Be Afraid: March and Vigil for Human Dignity" the evening of March 21 in the wake of what organizers called "dehumanizing laws and policies" toward migrants in the Lone Star State.

Every year during Holy Week, the faithful of the Archdiocese are invited to gather with Daniel Cardinal DiNardo for the celebration of the Chrism Mass — one of the most solemn and significant events of the liturgical year.

Parishes in the Archdiocese are being asked to hold an optional second collection on Palm Sunday weekend to help the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, which benefits those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS, celebrated the Rite of Election for those preparing to enter the Catholic Church at Easter.

With a dozen industrial companies already surrounding Kashmere Gardens, residents and medical staff of nearby Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital say they have enough air pollution and are protesting a proposed concrete crusher.

With a loud and raucous “HOWDY!” St. Jerome Catholic School students greeted the Salt Grass Trail Ride as the Texas heritage group made their 105-mile-long trek from Cat Spring to Houston for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine entering its third year, seven U.S. cardinals have become patrons of a new effort to heal the suffering of Ukraine’s people due to Russian aggression.