Saturday, June 9, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey joined the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament for the installation of its leadership team for the 2012-16 term.

On Sunday, June 10, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey celebrated Mass at the Corpus Christi Cathedral for the Feast of Corpus Christi. The Cathedral was full with religious and families.

Sister Mary Monica de la Rosa, IWBS, 81, died peacefully at Incarnate Word Convent on Saturday, June 16, following a lengthy illness. Loving family members and ISBS sisters surrounded her at the time of her death.

On Saturday, June 9, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey celebrated Mass at the Blessed Sacrament Convent of the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration (the Pink Sisters).

ATLANTA—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) reaffirmed by a unanimous voice vote on June 13 a recent statement of the USCCB Administrative Committee regarding the HHS mandate.

Seventh grade students at Incarnate Word Academy Middle Level left quite a mark on the 2011-2012 school year with an amazing 39 students qualifying to participate in the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP). Of those students who qualified, 37 students chose to take the ACT or SAT for TIP evaluation. After evaluation, fifteen Angels were named as state recognized Duke University Scholars.

DALLAS – CHRISTUS Health, a Catholic, faith-based, not-for-profit health system headquartered in Dallas, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jim Cato to interim vice president and chief nursing officer.

Incarnate Word Academy (IWA) High School listed as the top rated Catholic School in the TAPPS 4A division for the second year in a row.

Saint Anne’s Feast 2012 will be celebrated at Saint Anne’s Mission in Encino, Texas on Sunday, July 29, at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend this annual event honoring the parish’s patron saint.

The Catholic Daughters of America from St. Philip the Apostle Parish in Corpus Christi awarded scholarships to 10 deserving 2012 graduates who will be attending their first year at a university in the fall.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A group of middle school students donated a special bench to CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi. The white wooden bench with thoughtful messages written in an array of colorful ink is meant to call attention to organ donations.

Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey ordained Christopher Becerra as a transitional deacon at the Corpus Christi Cathedral on Saturday, May 26. Becerra’s next step in his formation to become a priest will be ordination to the priesthood.

Three scouts were awarded the rank of Eagle Scout on May 12 at St. Patrick Parish Hall. An Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held to acknowledge their accomplishments.

Most Americans haven’t the foggiest idea that a quasi-Stalinist, violently anti-Catholic regime once existed on our southern borders. Those who don’t know how bad Mexico was in the late 1920s are about to learn, though: at least those who see “For Greater Glory,” a recently-released movie about the Cristero War, a passionate (and bloody) defense of Catholicism that’s remembered today, if at all, because of Graham Greene’s novel, The Power and the Glory.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an impassioned defense of religion, saying the world would be heading for tragedy and disaster without faith.

Two figures in U.S. Catholic history, a 19th century bishop and a 20th century religious sister, moved closer to possible sainthood with a May 10 decree from the pope approving their public veneration.

The Catholic Church’s relationship to Judaism as taught by the Second Vatican Council and the interpretations and developments of that teaching by subsequent popes, “are binding on a Catholic,” said the Vatican official responsible for relations with the Jews.

The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced it will hold separate talks with the superior general of the breakaway traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and each of its three other bishops to try and achieve reconciliation.