Msgr. Heras accepted the national award at the association’s annual convention held April 11–13 in Boston, Mass. He is the second pastor from the Diocese of Corpus Christi to receive the award, in as many years.

Catholic missionary service is deeply rooted in the history of South Texas. Many parishes, communities, the educational efforts in the Diocese of Corpus Christi trace their founding to the first missionaries who brought the Gospel to this rugged frontier.

The Diocese of Corpus Christi’s traveling exhibit “Becoming the Body of Christ” is showing at La Retama Central Library, located at 805 Comanche in Corpus Christi until Friday, June 1. The exhibit depicts the growth of the diocese since its beginning in 1912 to recent times.

Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey will ordain Christopher Emmanuel Becerra to the Sacred Order of Deacon through the laying on of hands and the invocation of the Holy Spirit.

Currently on sabbatical from the Diocese of Ossory, Ireland and residing at the Corpus Christi Cathedral rectory, Father Norris has spent the past year researching, writing and publishing this book.

Dear Brother and Sisters, as we continue through the Easter season we give thanks for Christ risen from the dead. He is our hope; He is the highest expression of God’s mercy for every human being.

From antiquity, from the ancient Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans, mankind has honored motherhood in some form. Early Christians celebrated a Mother’s Day of sorts on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ.

One widely encountered idea today is that there is no black and white when it comes to morality, only a kind of “gray area.” This is often taken to mean that we really can’t know with certainty what is right and wrong, allowing us to “push into the gray” as we make certain moral decisions that at first glance appear to be immoral.

The consistent ethic of life provides a moral framework for principled Catholic engagement in political life and, rightly understood, neither treats all issues as morally equivalent nor reduces Catholic teaching to one or two issues. It anchors the Catholic commitment to defend human life, from conception until natural death, in the fundamental moral obligation to respect the dignity of every person as a child of God.

The election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912 outlined the progressive direction the country would follow for the next several years. That same year the Catholic Church also chose a new path for its institution in south Texas with the Rome declaration by Pope Pius X proposing that the Vicariate Apostolic of Brownsville become a diocese, with Corpus Christi as its See and St. Patrick’s Church as the cathedral.

The Texas Catholic Conference extended its appreciation to the Austin City Council for unanimously passing new zoning restrictions on payday and auto title lenders at its April 26 meeting.

Father John H. Schied and Father Paulinus Doran, CP died within minutes of each other in Spohn Sanitarium; victims, most probably of complications of the virulent flu which had struck the city.