Ten years after his death, protégés of Redemptorist priest Father David Walsh are carrying on with his mission of bringing Christ to the deaf and disabled in the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

In the last several weeks, our country has wrestled with the meaning of what is at the heart of human society–the nature of the family and its core, marriage. Challenging questions about the nature of marriage and family have arisen that have confused many, with answers that are often at odds with the very truth about marriage.

Incarnate Word Academy is proud to announce Sammie H. Grunwald as its fourth president and CEO in the school’s 144-year history. She officially began June and assumed the role as president and CEO on July 1.

Incarnate Word Academy Elementary Level is hosting an Art from the Heart Camp from July 27-31 at the school’s Angel Avenue Student Center.

The top leaders of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting have made an uneasy peace with the Boy Scouts of America's decision July 27 to allow openly gay troop leaders and employees to serve in their ranks at the national level. The Boy Scouts' decision does not affect decisions about leaders made by local troops and councils and also permits religiously chartered Scout troops to choose leaders whose values are consistent with those of the sponsoring faith.

On exam day, geology students might be handed a mystery rock to study, scratch and peer at, looking for clues to identify it and hypothesize about its origins and composition. On exam day at the Vatican Secret Archives, student-scholars get handed an obscure medieval manuscript to decipher, transcribe, analyze and hypothesize about its origins and historical context.

Father Richard Gonzales and five parishioners from St. Joseph's in Beeville traveled to New Orleans to attend the National Right to Life Convention from July 8-12. Parishioners on the trip included Jeannie Leos, Arlisa Valdez, Patsy Longoria and Gilbert and Renee Guajardo. They attended all the general sessions and various workshops.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals July 23 reversed a lower court ruling that had granted some pro-life pharmacists at a Ralph's grocery store pharmacy in Washington state the right on religious grounds to refuse to stock emergency contraception or fill such prescriptions.

Pope Francis was the first pilgrim to sign up for World Youth Day to be held in Krakow, Poland, launching the opening of registration. Accompanied by two Polish teenagers who wore World Youth Day 2016 T-shirts, the pope had to make a couple of attempts pressing the screen of a tablet before his online registration went through.

In anticipation of Pope Francis' September visit to Washington, the Archdiocese of Washington and its Catholic Charities arm have launched an effort that challenges members of the local community to reach out to those in need.

As religious gathered July 20-25 in Thailand for a symposium on religious life hosted by the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, religious men and women throughout the region find themselves facing new challenges to their missions. Like the Capuchin brothers, religious throughout South Asia are seeing significant transformations that will affect the future of consecrated life. In countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the very complexion of religious congregations is changing.

Texas’ Catholic Bishops have expressed deep concern and moral disgust at recent videos showing executives of Planned Parenthood casually negotiating the sale of infant body parts that have been harvested from abortions. The two undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress has awakened national attention to the atrocity of dismembering infants and then using those parts for medical experimentation.

Amid an outcry from members of the GOP demanding answers to questions raised by a video of a Planned Parenthood physician talking about preserving fetal organs and tissue for researchers for a fee, a second video emerged July 21 of a different physician from the organization talking about the same topic.

Christians in the Middle East are facing difficulties ranging from "bad" to "less bad," said Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem. While describing the condition of the Palestinians in the West Bank as "bad," he said their situation is better than the challenges faced by Christians in Syria and Iraq, especially those who have been forced to flee homes in the fact of Islamic State militants.

In celebration of its Diamond Jubilee, the Texas Choral Directors Association (TCDA) has chosen the Corpus Christi Cathedral Choirs under the Direction of Lee Gwozdz and Guadalupe Rivera, Jr. to share their talent as a part of the 60th Anniversary worship service “Our Hope For Years To Come.” The event will take place on Friday, July 24, 7 p.m. at Travis Park United Methodist Church located near the TCDA convention site in downtown San Antonio.

An outpouring of sympathy and prayer washed over Tennessee for the victims of the July 16 shootings that left four Marines and the shooter dead. Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, whose diocese includes Chattanooga, encouraged all Catholics and people of faith to participate in a community prayer service at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Chattanooga held the afternoon of the shootings at a military recruiting center and a Navy-Marine training center a few miles away.

A good pastor always sees what people are going through, feels compassion and then nourishes them with God's Word, Pope Francis said. Seeing and being moved to pity "have always been associated with Jesus," the Good Shepherd, he said July 19 before reciting the Angelus with visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square.

Human trafficking illustrates Pope Francis' lament that "we live in 'throwaway culture,' in which people are discarded as quickly and easily as an old, worn out shoe," a bishop told a Washington conference.

One year after a war with Israel that turned daily life here into a nightmare, a Catholic priest in Gaza said the situation in this besieged Palestinian territory has deteriorated even further.