“I want to say what I feel in my heart to do,” Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey told more than 500 pro-life advocates gathered for the 22nd Annual Celebration for Life at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center on Sept. 7.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan will be the keynote speaker at an event to be held March 26, 2012 commemorating the Centennial Jubilee of the erection of the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

Incarnate Word Academy students and faculty sent hand-written messages on ribbons and sent them to New York City on Sept. 9, where they will become part of the Tapestries of Hope in Battery Park at Ground Zero.

Incarnate Word Academy held the grand opening of its new College & Career Guidance Center (CCGC) on Sept. 8, during its Annual College Night. Nearly 250 IWA students and parents gathered to watch the official ribbon cutting by Principal Joe Torres, Academic Counselor Mitzi Witt, Director of Technology Priscilla Ramos and IWA President Charles Imbergamo.

Join us on Dec. 12th from 8:30 to Noon for a time of reflection, laughter, prayer and fellowship.

“I see so much potential for people who can make a difference,” Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey said in a Cathedral full of Catholic school students gathered for a “Liturgy to Begin the School” on Aug. 24.

Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey blessed a new $1.75 million permanent classroom building at Bishop Garriga Middle Preparatory School on Monday, Aug. 29. Some 250 of the school’s students and faculty, along with friends and supporters witnessed the school’s inauguration.

BASTROP, Texas (CNS) -- La parroquia Ascensión en Bastrop, Texas, ha estado sirviendo como refugio y centro neurálgico para los esfuerzos de socorro relacionados con los incendios forestales en el estado.

El diario New York Times difundió esta semana la historia de Cinthya Daily, una mujer que descubrió que el bebé que concibió hace siete años con semen de un donante tiene al menos 150 medios hermanos, un caso que evidencia cómo el millonario negocio de la fecundación artificial está hace tiempo fuera de control en el país.

Cuando el Papa Pío X publicó la bula papal para la erección de la diócesis de Corpus Christi en 1912, fue la afirmación de la realidad de la iglesia en el sur de Texas, que había crecido de las semillas de la fe plantada y cultivada durante muchos años.

El Obispo Wm. Michael Mulvey instalo siete nuevos pastores durante un período de tres semanas en agosto y septiembre. Cuando un nuevo pastor es designado para una parroquia, es conveniente que el obispo públicamente lo instale en un rito litúrgico.

Beginning with this issue of the South Texas Catholic, readers will notice a slightly different look. In every section heading of the paper they will see the logo for the Diocese of Corpus Christi Centennial—“Century of Tradition/Lifetime of Faith.” With this issue we begin the celebration of our centennial, which will be a yearlong time of remembrance, rejoicing and renewal

A recent news report chronicled a Chinese woman named Huang Yijun. Sixty years ago, her unborn child died, but the pregnancy was never expelled from her body. Instead, her baby’s body slowly began to calcify inside her, becoming a crystallized, stone-like mass.

Pro-life concerns include anything that promotes the dignity of men and women created by God in His image. To transgress life, in any form, is to disobey God and to blemish His presence within us.

Q: I am 79 years of age, have been a Catholic all my life and have tried my best to follow the Ten Commandments. But I find myself now bothered by religious doubts and fear that I may really be an agnostic. Can a person remain in the state of grace with this state of mind? (I have read that Mother Teresa had similar feelings before her death.) (Gahanna, Ohio)

“Do this in memory of me,” sets the tone for the 2011-12 catechetical year.

After the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus into heaven and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon them, the apostles realized that they were now the leaders of the followers of Jesus. What this meant to them was not immediately clear, but gradually, through experience, they realized that they could not do everything.

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, the Catholic Church will celebrate the Feast of St. Luke, the Evangelist. In his letter to the Colossians, St. Paul identifies St. Luke as “the beloved physician.” For this reason St. Luke is known as the patron saint of physicians. In the Diocese of Corpus Christi, this year’s feast was selected to coincide with the inaugural White Mass honoring medical professionals.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Ascension Parish in Bastrop, Texas, has been serving as a shelter and a nerve center for relief efforts related to the ongoing Texas wildfires that have struck the state.