Sister Pam Buganski offers readers some questions for personal reflection on recent immigration news.

Thirteen years ago our country suffered a great injustice, an act which cost us much --first and foremost thousands of innocent lives --- people of every age, race, and creed struck down while simply going about their daily business, and of course also the brave men and women who raced selflessly to their aid.

This year's Youth Spectacular theme is on "Family" and participating youth at the Middle School and High School Youth Spectaculars are being asked to bring items needed by Catholic Charities to fill their bus with goods that will be sent to the Diocese of Brownsville to assist unaccompanied children and families migrating with children across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Bishop Cirilo B. Flores of San Diego died Sept. 6 of complications from prostate cancer. He was 66. On Sept. 4, Bishop Flores had been transferred from the cancer center of the University of Southern California to Nazareth House in San Diego for hospice care.

Incarnate Word Academy Elementary Level held an assembly to welcome grandparents to IWA campus on Sept. 5.

The canonization cause of Archbishop Fulton Sheen has been suspended indefinitely, according to a statement issued Sept. 3 by the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, where the archbishop was born.

The "Francis effect" has spilled over into the Sistine Chapel, bringing a surge in visitors but also increasing risks to maintenance of what Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, calls "the world's chapel."

"Consumerism has caused us to get used to the daily excess and waste of food, which we are no longer capable of seeing for its true worth, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. Remember, however, that the food that is thrown away is as if we had stolen it from the table of the poor, from those who are hungry."

An overflow crowd turned out to hear Rex Moses at the 25th Annual Celebration for Life banquet on Thursday, Sept. 4. Moses was credited by many in attendance for providing the direction and energy to the pro-life movement in Corpus Christi during its early years.

St. John Paul II High School senior, John Michael Gonzalez, receives a scholarship award from General Marc Cisneros on Sept. 3. The 2014 General Cisneros Award is given to the student who exemplifies good character and leadership skills.

Eddie Canales and I have been privileged to work with Genevieve from No More Deaths (NMD) in Arizona to learn the tools and systems that they have in place to assist with search and rescue as well as search and recovery. Genevieve is at the South Texas Human Rights Center for a few days using our cases to introduce us to their process.

Confronted with increased costs occasioned by ongoing building repairs and an upcoming replacement of its main transmitting antenna, local non-commercial station KLUX 89.5HD will hold a two-day, on-the-air fundraiser on Sept. 8-9.

Incarnate Word Academy students, staff, faculty and alumni participated in the 8th Annual Angel Mile Run, which coincided with the grand opening of the school's new training site on Aug. 23 at Our Lady of Corpus Christi.

The Missionary Daughters of the Most Pure Virgin Mary invite everyone to a special rosary in honor of Venerable Mother Julia Navarrete. Come help celebrate a Christmas Miracle with a “Noche de Luminaria” rosary at the Venerable Mother Julia Chapel located at 408 E. Richard in Kingsville on Friday, Dec. 9, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Everyone will have an opportunity to place remembrance petitions for loved ones on the altar to stay throughout Advent.