Elementary, middle and high school level students at Incarnate Word Academy attended an All Saints Day Mass on Friday, Nov. 1, at the high school’s Mother Patricia Gunning Gymnasium with Bishop Michael Mulvey as celebrant.

In a recent survey conducted for the archdioceses of Newark, New York and Hartford, 71 percent of Catholics said they had no or only some knowledge on the Catholic church’s views on cremation in a Catholic funeral; this at a time when the use of cremation is growing significantly, both among the general population and Catholics.

Most U.S. Catholics are not looking for spirituality online, in fact, half of them are unaware the church even has an online presence, according to researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

El próximo año, la Iglesia Católica tendrá un acontecimiento histórico, ya que el Papa Francisco canonizará como santos dos de su predecesores el mismo día: el Papa Juan Pablo II y Papa Juan XXIII. Este día histórico será el 27 de Abril del 2014.

Pope Francis thanked the Knights of Columbus for being in solidarity with him, something he said is seen not only in the money they give for his charities, but also in their prayers, sacrifices and charitable activities.

Maria Montessori’s approach to education was to never help children do something that they can do by themselves. That is where the sense of competency comes from for a student in being able to learn or achieve something that they have initiated.

When the Vicariate of Brownsville was raised to the status of a diocese in March 1912, the wooden church of St. Patrick’s built by Bishop Dominic Manucy in the early 1880s on the southwest corner of the intersection of N. Carancahua and Antelope Streets in Corpus Christi was designated the first cathedral of the newly named Diocese of Corpus Christi.