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The Texas Catholic Conference is ramping up the next phase of its popular“I’m A Texas Catholic”campaign, to instill a sense of community and promote pride about our Catholic faith to the rest of the world. The“I’m a Texas Catholic”campaign was launched earlier this year in advance of the 84th Texas Legislature with a focus on…

By Bishop Daniel E. Flores, Bishop of Brownsville I recently have taken small steps into the world of Twitter. Hobbit steps you might call them, tenuous and clothed in a vague awareness that there is no real turning back from it. Odd how the fast-changing world of finger-prompted media-forms pulls people into its orbit. Fascinating,…

Texas’ Catholic Bishops have expressed deep concern and moral disgust at recent videos showing executives of Planned Parenthood Inc. casually negotiating the sale of infant body parts that have been harvested from abortions. The two undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress has awakened national attention to the atrocity of dismembering infants and then…

Although their founding dates are separated by 75 years, the Diocese of Brownsville and Dallas are both celebrating landmark birthdays this month.  On July 15, 1890, Pope Leo XIII issued a Papal Bull to erect the Diocese of Dallas.  As a relative newcomer, Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Brownsville on July 10, 1965.…

Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Cultureextended its notable history of award winning publications by picking up two third-place awards at the Catholic Press Association’s recent conference in Buffalo, New York. The publication won third place in the Best Cover category and Amanda Bresie’s article on the founding of Xavier University in New Orleans…

After forty-nine years of dedicated service in Catholic education, Marsha Solana recently retired from the Texas Catholic Conference.  At the time of her departure, she served as Associate Director of the organization’s Department of Education.  Solana worked in a variety of roles throughout her prestigious career, including years as a teacher, principal and assistant superintendent…

WASHINGTON—The bishops chairing two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) renewed the bishops’ opposition to the death penalty in a message, July 16. The message commemorated the 10th anniversary of the bishops’ Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty and their accompanying message,“A Culture of Life and the Penalty…

By Most Reverend Kevin J. Farrell, Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas On July 15, 1890, one-hundred-and-twenty-five years ago, Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Dallas. Because of the July heat and the absence of so many on vacations, birthday celebrations are postponed until the fall and winter. A number of festivities are planned…

Capping off a collaborative effort that began almost a decade ago, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed the Catholic Missions of San Antonio as a World Heritage Site. The announcement was made Sunday, July 5, 2015, at the World Heritage Summit in Bonn, Germany. The San Antonio Missions, which remain working…

Pro-life leaders from across Texas, including representatives of the Texas Catholic Conference, joined Governor Greg Abbott on July 8, for the ceremonial signing into law of House Bill 3994. The new law tightens the legal process by which juveniles can get an abortion without parental notification or permission if they can convince a district court…