Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey has made the following appointments for the good of the people of God in the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

Knights of Columbus from across the state gathered at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi on April 26-28 for their 109th Annual State Convention. Corpus Christi Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey celebrated the opening Mass on Friday, April 26.

Nearly 90 Boy and Girl Scouts and adult volunteers gathered with their families at Corpus Christi Cathedral on April 14 to receive their religious emblems and scouting awards for the past year. These emblems are awarded to those who demonstrated outstanding moral example in their units and in the community as well as in leadership.

The Corpus Christi Cathedral was filled with priests, religious and lay faithful during the Chrism Mass on Tuesday, March 26. The Cathedral resonated with liturgical music from the Cathedral Choir as a procession of Knights of Columbus, Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre, representatives of various ministries, deacons, priests and Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey made its approach to the altar.

Jesus’ last night on earth taught us a new spirit, a new covenant of sacrifice for each other, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey said in his Holy Thursday Homily on March 28 at the Corpus Christi Cathedral.

The last two remaining Dominican priests in the Diocese of Corpus Christi are returning home to Spain on July 1, bringing to end more than 80 years of service to the parish communities in San Diego and the surrounding area.

In April 1931, the Claretian Provincial Secretary in Mexico City informed Corpus Christi Bishop Emmanuel Ledvina that they could no longer serve the parish in San Diego. He informed the bishop that the order simply did not have enough priests who could “speak and preach in correct English.”

In honor of Catholic Faith in Action Advocacy Day nearly 2000 Catholic Texans traveled to Austin and met at the steps of the state capitol on April 9 to rally with Texas bishops and meet with their senators and representatives.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak Wednesday, April 17, 2013 for CHRISTUS Spohn Health System Foundation’s 25th Annual South Texas Lyceum, held at the American Bank Center.

Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey has made the following appointments for the good of the people of God in the Diocese of Corpus Christi effective July 1, 2013.

CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-South has reduced the number of elective inductions and caesarean deliveries performed before 39 completed weeks of pregnancy and has earned March of Dimes recognition for this efforts.

The Diocese of Corpus Christi Office of Youth Ministry is hosting three "Mini Youth Spectaculars." These smaller scale events will culminate in the main event in September, which will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Youth Spectacular in the diocese.

On Sunday, March 3, the Pontifical North American College installed 62 seminarians to the ministry of acolyte during a celebration of the Eucharist at the school’s chapel. Eric Chapa a seminarian with the Diocese of Corpus Christi and a second year student of theological studies was among those seminarians instituted.

For the 11th year the international relay run of the Antorcha Guadalupana passed through the Diocese of Corpus Christi and stopped at Holy Family Church located at 3157 MacArthur, on Oct. 30 arriving for a Mass at 7 p.m.

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 Cathedral on July 21 that the Church is calling into question “secular tendencies that seek to limit the divine”