Fort Bend Christian Academy of Sugar Land eliminated the Incarnate Word Academy Lady Angels softball team from the TAPPS 3-4A Regional playoffs by a 4-3 score in a game played on Monday, May 5. The game, which took place in College Station at the Texas A&M Aggie Softball Complex, was an exciting game to watch.

Holy Cross Church won 3rd place in the Religious category in the Buc Days parade. The float featured the parish's Centennial Jubilee celebration. The Door Christian Fellowship took first and second place went to Corpus Christi is the Body of Christ. See photos here.

The Sacramental Class at Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in Edroy received the Sacrament of First Holy Eucharist on Sunday, May 4. See photo here.

The Lady Angels softball team has a TAPPS 3-4A Regional Playoff Game on Monday, May 5, against Fort Bend Christian Academy of Sugar Land. The game will be at 2 p.m. in College Station at the Texas A&M Aggie Softball Complex. The Lady Angels defeated Northland Christian School 11-4 on Tuesday, April 29, at home at the National Little League Field. See photo here.

Incarnate Word Academy senior Jaran Cadena is a new state record holder and champion of the TAPPS 4A 800 meter run. Cadena finished with a time of 1:55:83 at the TAPPS State Track and Field Meet, which was held in Waco. He broke the previous state record set in 2004.

Collaboration with civil society, the evangelization of a divided society and the formation of future clergy were the central themes of the written discourse that Pope Francis handed to the bishops of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi, whom he received today at the end of their “ad limina” visit.

On Thursday, May 1, Incarnate Word Academy students from the elementary, middle and high school levels presented its spring production of “Love and Friendship on Broadway” – a musical review of different Broadway hits throughout the years.

Today at the Nueces County Commissioners Court they resolved and hereby recognized Holy Cross Catholic Church on the celebration of its Centennial Jubilee to be held on Sept. 14.

Faith-filled leaders of tomorrow are molded everyday at Central Catholic Elementary. And now, thanks to new additions to the curriculum, the school is poised for many more decades of growth and success.

"We’re at the end of the world out here,” a fellow in Freer was heard saying to a local resident. “Not at the end, but you can see it from here,” responded the local.

Among married men and women who undergo surgical sterilization through a vasectomy or a tubal ligation, it has been estimated that anywhere from 10 to 20 percent will come to regret the choice.

Many Catholics often express concern for the way the “mainstream media” covers news concerning Catholics and their faith, as well as Christians in general.

In his Apostolic Exhortation The Joy of the Gospel, Pope Francis reminds us that we are not just disciples of Jesus Christ, but we are “missionary” –disciples.

In the beloved account of the Annunciation handed down to us in the Gospel of St. Luke, the evangelist recounts the response of Mary who having been informed by the angel of the Lord’s conception finds herself capable of saying “fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum” (let it be done to me according to thy word) (Lk 1:38).

Edmund Burke, the Irish born author, orator, philosopher and member of the English Parliament once said: “Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.”

Spring…Easter…New Life…on Easter Sunday, Jesus rose from death to new life and since then, the call to share in his new life is made to each one of us.

SAN ANTONIO—Catholic Life Insurance is now accepting applications for the 2014 Msgr. Albert G. Henkes and Msgr. Lawrence J. Stuebben Scholarships. These scholarships are designed to offset tuition expenses of Roman Catholic seminarians. The deadline to apply is June 15, 2014.

On Tuesday May 13, Catholic Charities Immigration & Refugee Services Department is hosting a public forum to discuss and understand more about general citizenship and immigration issues.

In a brief meeting held shortly before noon on March 20, 1943, the Corpus Christi City Council voted to designate the block of land on Shoreline just south of the USO building (today’s Art Center) as Sherrill Park in honor of one of the first Corpus Christians who died in World War II—Warren Joseph Sherrill, a young Catholic whose family attended the Corpus Christi Cathedral.

Bishop Michael Mulvey will ordain four new priests at the Corpus Christi Cathedral on Saturday, May 31, at 10 a.m. Two of the new priests will be diocesan priests and will serve in the Diocese of Corpus Christi and two will be ordained for the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity.