On Sept. 25, at a special noon Mass celebrated at the Newman Center located on the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi campus, members of Serra International met with university students and others to celebrate the canonization of Father Junipero Serra, the Spanish Franciscan missionary who established the string of Catholic missions along the coastline of California.

It's time for an update on the water stations. As you may remember, the goal of the South Texas Human Rights Center was to establish 100 water stations in and around Brooks County. Well, the current count is 97 stations!

For 50 years Sister Avelina Sosa, a sister with the Missionary Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph has been dedicated to spreading the word of God in parishes throughout Mexico and Texas.

Nearly 700 women attended the National Council of Catholic Women‘s 95th anniversary convention in Orlando, Florida, Sept. 9-12. Attendees included Father James G. Stembler, Pastor of St. Gertrude Church in Kingsville who is currently serving as Chair of NCCW Spiritual Advisors, Corpus Christi DCCW and Province of Galveston-Houston Spiritual Advisor, Basilia Lomas of Alice, Alice Area President CCW, Diana Zavala of Kingsville, Altar and Rosary Society St. Gertrude Church and Martha Orem of Alice, Corpus Christi DCCW President.

Sister Linda Thiel, OP, never imagined she would win a contest for a ticket to see the pope’s Canonization Mass at the Catholic University of America during his historic visit to Washington, D.C. A graduate of Catholic University, her alumni association held a contest and Sister Thiel won.

Ingrid Maldonado came to the United States 30 years ago from Bolivia. The single mother of four said seeing Pope Francis in person was an incredibly emotional experience and one she felt especially blessed to experience alongside one of her sons.

The countdown is on for the Coastal Bend Day of Giving, is a 24-hour online opportunity to raise funds for nonprofits at the forefront of assisting people in the greatest need in the Coastal Bend. This community give-together begins at midnight on Nov. 10 with a minimum gift of only $10.

Catholic men must reclaim and live the virtue of Christian masculinity, Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted says in his newly released apostolic exhortation, "Into the Breach."

Beeville can be called a town of prisons. There are four prisons in this small town: Trusty Camp, Garza West, Garza East and McConnell. The latter is a maximum-security prison.

As a schoolboy in India I had the impression that America was a concrete jungle. I had this from the color pictures that appeared in the journals we used to receive very rarely from US.

The world Synod of Bishops on the family is not a parliament where participants will negotiate or lobby, Pope Francis said, but it must be a place of prayer where bishops speak with courage and open themselves to "God who always surprises us."

Incarnate Word Academy Middle Level students in Howard Ludlow’s robotics classes learned how the use of robotics is beneficial in the field of prosthetics on Oct. 1.

Incarnate Word Academy Middle Level students in Marci Levings’ reading composition class skyped on Sept. 24 with Lynn Malooly, the executive director of Water for South Sudan.

​Incarnate Word Academy Elementary Level students ate breakfast with parents during the week of the school's Scholastic Book Fair from Sept. 21-25.

Two officials from the City of Corpus Christi Storm Water Division spoke to Incarnate Word Academy Middle Level students in Marci Levings’ sixth grade language arts class on Oct. 1.

Bishop Michael Mulvey and Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman both emphasized the need for judges and attorneys to adhere to the law, but to have compassion for those standing before them in courtrooms at Thursday's Red Mass in the Corpus Christi Cathedral.

La congregación de las Hermanas Dominicas de Santo Tomás de Aquino, por años ha tenido un sueño que está a punto de hacerse realidad: un centro de cuidado diurno para adultos en Calallen. El “Hosanna Adult Day Care Center” cumple con su misión de servicio a los hermanos mas pobres y desamparados.

Tony Guajardo, 25, has a vast number of places in Corpus Christi he could volunteer, but giving his time at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Newman Student Center is a mission close to his heart. When his job with the forest service transferred him to the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi campus last summer, a chance meeting with Deacon Alfonso Ramirez changed his life.

Nine-year-old Maika Hammaker had just one question for her mother when they learned in March they had been accepted in the Habitat for Humanity Corpus Christi program.

Erica Rios-Garza told the story about a young girl and her brother who crossed the border from Mexico in September with the help of a Coyote, or a human smuggler.