Catholic Extension announced that it is providing emergency relief funding to six border dioceses based on each diocese’s existing needs. Direct funding is being made to the dioceses of Las Cruces, Laredo, Tucson, Brownsville, El Paso and San Bernardino.

Now in its 30th Season, the Cathedral Music Ministry of Corpus Christi Cathedral announces openings for new members in 4 Cathedral choirs. Limited openings will be filled in the following Cathedral choirs: Pontifical Chorale (adult choir), the Youth Chorale (grades 8-12), Choristers (grades 4-7) and Cherub Choir (grades 1-3).

EWTN will air an award-winning film about the New Orleans Catholic sisters' determination to return to ministry and rebuild after Katrina's devastation.

Parents at Incarnate Word Academy will have an opportunity meet their child’s teachers and to be a student again as the school invites them to attend their child’s classrooms this week.

Bishop Michael Mulvey was in Alice on Sunday, Aug. 17, for the blessing of the new Adoration Chapel at Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Bishop Michael Mulvey blessed the new Queenship of Mary adoration chapel at Christi the King parish in Corpus Christi on Sunday, Aug. 17. "It is a beautiful, beautiful structure. Many moments of peace can be found here," Bishop Mulvey said.

"Stewardship is inherent in us as human beings," Bishop Michael Mulvey said to a packed parish hall at St. Paul the Apostle on Thursday, Aug. 14. "It is in us but needs to be drawn out."

Catholic schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi are returning to school for the 2014-15 academic year.

Blessed Mother Teresa once said, ?I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.?

The ministry of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has existed in the Diocese of Austin since 1961. Volunteers, called Vincentians, work to serve the poor within their parish communities, called conferences.

The Vatican called on Muslim leaders to condemn the "barbarity" and "unspeakable criminal acts" of Islamic State militants in Iraq, saying a failure to do so would jeopardize the future of interreligious dialogue.

Once, during a trip to New York City, some friends and I stopped into a restaurant on Seventh Avenue for dinner. I was happily slurping down my pho, a Vietnamese noodle dish, when I heard a familiar voice. The comedian Robin Williams -- Mrs. Doubtfire himself -- was sitting less than 10 feet away, telling hilarious stories to friends gathered around his dinner table.

El cardenal de Boston, Sean P. O'Malley, estimuló a todos los Caballeros de Colón presentes en una convención a convertirse en agentes de cambio en el mundo y a "unir los puntos", o establecer la relación, entre Cristo y los que sufren.

On Sunday, Aug. 10, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, welcomed Joni Luna of Corpus Christi into the novitiate. From now on she will be referred to as Sister Joni.

Excited students and staff gathered on the patio at St. Anthony School in Robstown for prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance and announcements on Aug. 11, their first day of school.

As children and teenagers arrived at the Corpus Christi Cathedral on July 20, they came with backpacks, snacks, sun block and their Bibles. One hundred eleven youth ranging from 7-years to 16-years of age checked in to attend the 11th Annual "Diocese of Corpus Christi Week" at Deer Creek Camp in Medina, Texas.

Sister Teresita Rodriguez, 77, Sister of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, was called to her eternal home Saturday, Aug. 9at Incarnate Word Convent in Corpus Christi, surrounded by her Sisters in her religious community, family and friends. She had spent several years in cancer treatment before choosing hospice in the final stages of the disease.

The chairman of the U.S. bishops' international policy committee has asked the nation's Catholic bishops to invite the people of their dioceses to pray for peace in Iraq Aug. 17.

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley has asked Catholics to offer prayer and penance to prevent a Satanic group from holding a "black mass" Sept. 21 at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City.

Surprisingly, G. K. Chesterton was only partially right when he wrote, “Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties is also nearly the most difficult.” Gratitude is more than a duty; it is a lifestyle, that is, if we truly believe in the Eucharist for the word itself, eucharistia, means thanksgiving.