September 12, 2023

A Shepherd’s Message – Sept. 12, 2023

An act of thanks goes out to all the teachers in our schools: Catholic, private and public. Teachers are most frequently quiet, even unassuming. However, they are essential leaders and active agents in our culture... how much we owe to our teachers!

July 11, 2023

A Shepherd's Message - July 11, 2023

Everyone is a participant in the Eucharist and thus should be conscious of what is happening; everyone is active in a very distinctive way and should be joyful that the Lord is “working” in the midst of the assembly.

June 13, 2023

A Shepherd's Message - June 13, 2023

We are in a year of Eucharistic Revival, a time of careful thinking and consideration about our love of the Eucharist, the summit and center of worship, and the backbone of our mutual charity. Let us remember our heritage, our history, our recent joys of adding new members, and our well-founded hope: Christ!

April 6, 2023

We are made luminous

In Holy Week and Easter, all the activity, preaching, healing, Good News, and miracles of Jesus are synthesized and intensified in Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. Jesus was and is always for His Father and for us — this service, this servitude, has reached its climax. The hour comes, and He enters it with complete freedom. He beckons us to follow.

March 3, 2023

Cardinal DiNardo Issues Dispensation from the Obligation of Abstinence from Meat on Friday, March 17, 2023

This year, the Memorial of Saint Patrick falls on Friday, March 17. It is well known that Saint Patrick's Day is a day of friendly social celebration for many American Catholics. I, therefore, decree that on Friday, March 17, 2023, all Catholics of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, no matter where they may be, and all other Catholics present in the Archdiocese on that day, are, by my authority, dispensed from the obligation to abstain from meat.