The Texas Catholic Herald

April 30, 2013

Modern youth seek a spirituality of communion

Youth in general are seekers of communion and unity. Most youth look for opportunities to belong to a group or to bring another youth into a group.

April 30, 2013

Iron Deacons: Bikers share the Word of God

In 2008, Deacon Joe Hensley decided to combine his love of riding with his love of the Word of God. He met with (now) deacons Gus Camacho and Sid Cammeresi and they decided to form a new motorcycle club named the Iron Deacons.

April 30, 2013

Parish Sacrament Team: Forming catechetical leaders

The Office of Evangelization and Catechesis (OEC) serves the Archdiocese in directing and moderating the evangelizing and catechetical activity of Galveston-Houston in order to draw people into a deeper communion and intimacy with Jesus Christ.

April 30, 2013

Guardian Angel Church turns 100

On April 14, with the voices of the grade school choir of the 1950s reunited for the occasion and singing familiar old hymns in the native Czech language of its founders, parishioners of Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Wallis, opened the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the building of their historic church.

April 30, 2013

Catholics travel to capitol for social justice

Joined as one in the Body of Christ — and in one voice — an estimated 1,500 blue-shirted Texas Catholics rallied on the steps of the state capitol April 9 to pray and campaign for the protection of society’s most desperate and vulnerable: the poor, the underprivileged and the unborn.

April 30, 2013

Catholic school students lobby to state officials during Advocacy Day

Dozens of students and other members of Catholic school communities lobbied as official liaisons from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston during Catholic Advocacy Day, April 9.

April 30, 2013

A story of miracles continues with Our Lady of Lourdes

This is the first of a series of articles on Marian Apparitions.

April 30, 2013

The Archdiocese gets social

Users can interact with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston by clicking ‘Like’ on the Archdiocesan Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ArchGH.

April 30, 2013

A woman in love

The writer of “Woman In Love” chronicles how her prayers to her “Husband To Be” changed his life, and hers, forever.

April 16, 2013

Habemus Papam: El Papa latino, migrante y humilde

¡Habemus Papam! ¡Habemus mucho por evangelizar y habemus mucha chamba! Yo me pregunto: ¿quién no ha sido capaz de atestiguar los matices que caracterizan a nuestro nuevo Papa? ¿Es una agradable coincidencia o una esperada bendición? ¿Qué planes de transformación se avecinan para nuestra amada Iglesia?