Three high school students and one adult from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church participated in this year’s "Music Ministry Alive" summer institute held at St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul, Minnesota. The goal of the program is to help each participant grow as an individual so that they can better serve as leaders and ministers in the Church.”

Recent papal teaching has identified four major principles of Catholic social teaching…These four principles can provide a moral framework for decisions in public life.

Politics is a noble mission to promote the common good. As such, it is about ethics and principles as well as issues, candidates and officeholders. To engage in “politics,” then, is more than getting involved in current polemics and debates; it is about acting with others and through institutions for the benefit of all.

Educators from all 18 schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi attended professional and spiritual development in-service days Aug. 3-4 at St. John Paul II High School and Bishop Garriga Middle Preparatory School.

"It’s a wonderful thing to do something that blesses a person's life," Grant Flournoy, store manager of Corpus Christi's Men's Warehouse, said of the July suit drive that helps men find jobs.

La Escuela de Lideres de el Movimiento de Cursillos de Cristiandad esta ejecutando un plan pastoral con lideres de las localidades en la diócesis de Corpus Christi participando. Muchos Cursillistas que han completado un Cursillo se encuentran involucrados en múltiples ministerios en sus parroquias ayudando las a crecer su comunidad cristiana.

Carlos Cesar Uria Trello and his wife Liset Uria Lopez arrived in Texas as refugees in 2006, after political unrest in Cuba. They brought their two daughters and a dream of a better life. They did not know the language or the culture of the country that took them in and they had no money.

Corpus Christi Police Chief Michael Markle said he was working nights at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in 1988 after he finished his service as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy when he decided he wanted to become a police officer. He credits the Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice he earned from St. Leo University in 2010 with helping him to advance through the ranks in his police career, eventually to the chief position.

La educación en escuelas católicas es de gran importancia para los hogares católicos, ya que los padres buscan educar a sus hijos congruentemente a los valores que se viven en casa. En la Diócesis de Corpus Christi hay 14 escuelas primarias, dos escuelas secundarias, y dos preparatorias; esparcidas entre las ciudades de Alice, Kingsville, Rockport, Robstown y Corpus Christi.

Take a moment to consider some big questions: Did God make you for a definite purpose, or can you be happy choosing any number of courses for your life? If God already knows your future, do you really have free will? If you were ordained a priest, would it be because you chose the priesthood, or because God destined you for that vocation?

As the canonization of Mother Teresa nears, Father Prince Kuruvila, pastor of St. John of the Cross in Orange Grove, is overcome by memories of his family’s personal relationship with the future saint. Growing up in India, Father Kuruvila had the privilege of meeting Mother Teresa on numerous occasions.

It was the fall of 1966 when St. Pius X Catholic School first opened its doors to 209 students. Eight teachers taught in eight classrooms, one each for first through eighth grades. There were four Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament sisters and four lay teachers with Sister Aloysius Young, IWBS as school principal. Students learned the basics—reading, writing and arithmetic.

In the Year of Mercy, and beyond, the faithful are called to perform corporal works of mercy, including visiting the sick and homebound. St. Patrick’s Parish in Corpus Christi has initiated a program called “I’m OK, You’re OK” that puts into action this call to service in a real and meaningful way.

Almost two years ago, Silvia Torres—just 21-years-old at the time—was three-months pregnant when her doctors in her home of Brownsville suggested terminating her pregnancy. Two of the three children in her womb were conjoined. Conjoined twins, doctors warned her, had a low chance of making it to full term and even if they survived delivery somehow, their chances of surviving an operation to separate them were grim.

For the good of the people of God in the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Bishop Michael Mulvey has appointed Father John Chavarria as Parochial Administrator for St. Michael the Archangel in Banquete, effective Aug. 17.

Eric Chapa remembers working at the Mother Teresa Shelter the summer before he entered the seminary. “It taught me that God is everywhere and in anybody. I saw people in terrible circumstances or going through such pain, but they still had joy,” he said. “It was an interesting lesson.”