While Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey has not called for a synod during the centennial year of the Diocese of Corpus Christi, meetings and celebrations will be held with different groups within the diocese in which the bishop will listen to the needs and the wisdom they bring in order to develop a “Pastoral Plan” that will frame and guide efforts for the New Evangelization.

Sister Mary Xavier Holworthy, IWBS is widely known as the historian of the Diocese of Corpus Christi. She was not only a historian but was a legend in her own right.

While the first bishop of Corpus Christi used his ad limina visit with the pope to offer his resignation, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey just returned from his visit with the Holy Father where he updated Pope Benedict XVI on the condition of the Church in the Diocese of Corpus Christi and his plans for its continued growth in faith.

When he was ordained a bishop on May 20, 1913 to shepherd the newly erected Diocese of Corpus Christi, Father Paul Joseph Nussbaum, CP, was only 42 years old. He was a young and energetic bishop to serve a young and growing diocese during some very challenging years that rapidly aged him.

“Being a public witness peacefully to end abortion will be the most uncomfortable, but most important thing you can do in your life,” said Elizabeth McClung, Executive Director Austin Coalition for Life, while she did just that in front of the Coastal Birth Control Center on Morgan and Crosstown Expressway in Corpus Christi on March 15.

NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Every life is beautiful." That's the tagline -- as well as the underlying theme -- of the thoroughly honorable, if not always fully effective, drama "October Baby" (Provident/Samuel Goldwyn).

Although there are no specifically Catholic issues under consideration when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments March 26-28 on various aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Catholics will play some key roles.

Incarnate Word Academy participated in the Regional High School Mock Trial program for the first time this year, competing with seven other area public and private schools. Despite their first time in the competition, the Angels secured a first place win, which advanced them to 2012 State Mock Trial Competition in Dallas on March 3-4.

Incarnate Word Academy launched the Parent FORUM Series-Forming Our Response, Unified in Mission. This is an opportunity for continuing the partnership between home and school, addressing the school’s on-going response to the needs of its students and families.

Three charitable organizations will receive donations from Incarnate Word Academy Middle Level students from money earned in a contest celebrating modern saints. The idea for the contest came about to as part of the events to commemorate Catholic School’s Week.

Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey, DD, STL of Corpus Christi began his Ad Limina Apostolorum (to the threshold of the apostles) visit with the Holy Father on March 15, along with bishops from Region X, which includes Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Attendees at the Incarnate Word Academy 2012 Benefit Gala helped raise more than $140,000 for the Academy’s Educational Initiative Fund.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the “Glor na Daire Academy of Irish Dance” who will performing in the community this week in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. The highlight of their performances will be at St. Patrick Mission in old San Patricio.

On Saturday, Feb. 25, 14 couples came together at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Aransas Pass for a married couples’ retreat sponsored by the Office of Family Life. Deacon Ron Martinez, Engaged Encounter Coordinator for the Office of Family Life, presented a talk on the language of romance and “keeping the fire of love burning.”

"October Baby," which debuts March 23 in about 360 theaters, details the revelation to college student Hannah about the circumstances behind her birth, and her quest to find the woman who tried to abort her. “October Baby” will be showing in Corpus Christi at the Cinemark Century 16 Theaters located at 6685 South Padre Island Drive March 23-29.

LAGOS, Nigeria (CNS) -- The suicide car bombing of a church in Jos was an "evil, irrational, beastly and criminal" act, said the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria.

Nearly 50 high school-age gentlemen from around the Diocese of Corpus Christi gathered at Blessed John Paul II High School on Feb. 18 to embark on a journey to celebrate Catholic manhood in a the “True Valor Retreat.”

Forcing Planned Parenthood as participant risks funding for all women’s health programs and 130,000 Texas women.

Movimiento de Cursillo de la Diócesis de Corpus Christi participaron en un retiro el 19 de Febrero en el Centro de Cursillo titulado " Aquí Estoy Señor, Vengo Hacer Tu Voluntad.” Asistencia de 50 vinieron de Alice, Beeville, Bishop, Corpus CHristi, Kingsville, Mathis, Sinton, y San Diego.

On Friday, March 2, Central Catholic Elementary participated in "Read the Most from Coast to Coast." In one day the children from Grades 1st-5th read and tested on 2,101 books.