Bishop Michael Mulvey, Dr. Beatriz Espinoza, President of Coastal Bend College and General Marc Cisneros, CEO of the John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation, broke ground for a new Catholic Campus ministry building in Beeville on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The ceremony took place on the site of the new building across the street from Coastal Bend College at the intersection of Charco Road and Louise Drive.

Quoting Pope Francis, Bishop Michael Mulvey told parishioners of St. Therese of the Little Flower in Woodsboro that “a person of faith is a person who remembers.” The occasion was a Mass “concluding a year of remembering” 100 years of the parish’s existence.

Pope Francis threw away a prepared text and, to the delight of tens of thousands of people on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, spoke from the heart about the challenges and love that come with being part of a family.

During an evening prayer service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Pope Francis thanked the nation’s priests, brothers and women religious for their service and gave particular thanks to women religious asking, “Where would the church be without you?”