• Catholic Extension grants $175,000 in emergency relief funding to border dioceses
    August 20, 2014
    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.
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  • Cathedral announces talent search for all Cathedral choirs
    Cathedral announces talent search for all Cathedral choirs
    August 20, 2014
    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).
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  • 'We Shall Not Be Moved' to air Aug. 26, 30 throughout U.S., the world
    August 19, 2014
    EWTN will air an award-winning film about the New Orleans Catholic sisters' determination to return to ministry and rebuild after Katrina's devastation.
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  • Incarnate Word Academy hosts back-to-school and follow-the-schedule nights
    August 19, 2014
    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.
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  • New adoration chapel dedicated at Our Lady of Guadalupe
    August 19, 2014
    Bishop Michael Mulvey was in Alice on Sunday, Aug. 17, for the blessing of the new Adoration Chapel at Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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  • Bishop dedicates Queenship of Mary at Christ the King parish
    Bishop dedicates Queenship of Mary at Christ the King parish
    August 18, 2014
    by Alfredo E. Cardenas, South Texas Catholic
    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.
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  • Stewardship Day draws large crowd to St. Paul the Apostle
    Stewardship Day draws large crowd to St. Paul the Apostle
    August 14, 2014
    "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."
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  • Back to School Photos
    Back to School Photos
    August 14, 2014
    Catholic schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi are returning to school for the 2014-15 academic year.
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  • Helping my brothers and sisters in Christ
    August 13, 2014
    by NOAH PONCE, The Valley Catholic
    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.?
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  • St. Vincent de Paul Society provides critical needs
    August 13, 2014
    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.
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  • Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to condemn Islamic State
    August 13, 2014
    by Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service
    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.
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  • A lesson from the dimming of a bright star
    A lesson from the dimming of a bright star
    August 13, 2014
    by Karen Osborne, Catholic News Service
    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.
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  • 'Las heridas de Cristo' se pueden ver en el 
<br />sufrimiento de inmigrantes, dice cardenal
    'Las heridas de Cristo' se pueden ver en el
    sufrimiento de inmigrantes, dice cardenal
    August 13, 2014
    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.
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  • Joni Luna enters novitiate
    Joni Luna enters novitiate
    August 13, 2014
    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.
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  • Students excited on first day of School at St. Anthony
    August 13, 2014
    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.
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  • Deer Camp offered youth opportunity to
    Deer Camp offered youth opportunity to "re-connect" with God
    August 12, 2014
    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.
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  • In Memoriam: Sister Teresita Rodriguez, Sept. 11, 1936- Aug. 9, 2014
    In Memoriam: Sister Teresita Rodriguez, Sept. 11, 1936- Aug. 9, 2014
    August 11, 2014
    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.
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  • U.S. bishops, parishes asked to offer special prayer for peace in Iraq
    U.S. bishops, parishes asked to offer special prayer for peace in Iraq
    August 11, 2014
    by Catholic News Service
    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.
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  • Archbishop calls for prayer, penance to counter planned 'black mass'
    Archbishop calls for prayer, penance to counter planned 'black mass'
    August 11, 2014
    by Catholic News Service
    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.
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  • Teaching and sharing the Eucharist—one grateful thank-you at a time
    August 8, 2014
    by By Sister Lou Ella Hickman, IWBS Contributor
    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.
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