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Texas Filipinos celebrate their faith in Santo Niño festival season
The Festival of Santo Niño de Cebu -- rooted in the deep faith of the Filipino people and originating in the Philippines' Cebu province -- finds special Masses, dances and processions taking place in which participants carry a statue of the infant Jesus marking the 16th-century arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.
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Houston Catholic hospitals, clinics fight to end human trafficking
CHI St. Luke’s and San José Clinic train staff how to report human trafficking
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Two area Catholic schools named Cardinal Newman Society Honor Roll
The Cardinal Newman Society recently awarded St. Theresa Catholic School in Sugar Land as an Honor Roll School. Frassati Catholic High School in Spring earned this distinction last spring.
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‘Two Rivers’ report unites Catholic social teaching, Native American communities
At an October 2019 gathering, American Indian tribal leaders met with Church leaders to realize strategies to address poverty that plagues many of the roughly 6.9 million American Indian and Alaska Natives, a recent estimate by the U.S. Census that included those of more than one race.
Jan 14, 2020
A renovated home for the holidays: St. Francis of Assisi parishioners mark second Christmas since Harvey
Cardinal DiNardo visits revived Kashmere Gardens parish as parishioners finally move back into repaired houses
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Houston Catholic hospitals, clinics fight to end human trafficking
CHI St. Luke’s and San José Clinic train staff how to report human trafficking
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Galveston parish focuses on unique gifts from God
At Holy Family Parish in Galveston, the focus shifts to different types of gifts. Instead of focusing on commercial gifts, such as bikes, games, clothing and tools, they focus on gifts from God.
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Two area Catholic schools named Cardinal Newman Society Honor Roll
The Cardinal Newman Society recently awarded St. Theresa Catholic School in Sugar Land as an Honor Roll School. Frassati Catholic High School in Spring earned this distinction last spring.
Read MoreJan 14, 2020
‘Two Rivers’ report unites Catholic social teaching, Native American communities
At an October 2019 gathering, American Indian tribal leaders met with Church leaders to realize strategies to address poverty that plagues many of the roughly 6.9 million American Indian and Alaska Natives, a recent estimate by the U.S. Census that included those of more than one race.
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COLBERT: Infusing the message of Sacramentum Caritatis to youth
In his 2007 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that “the Christian faithful need a fuller understanding of the relationship between the Eucharist and their daily lives. Eucharistic spirituality is not just participation in Mass and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. It embraces the whole of life.”
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SAMUELS: Catholics are called to make ‘I Have a Dream’ a reality
As the Church celebrates the life of Martin Luther King Jr., we have a mandate to follow through with the legacy that this great man has left us. It is fitting for this day, and on the holiday on Jan. 20, to remember the famous speech “I Have a Dream,” however, we are called as a Church to make this “Dream” a reality and use these famous words as a call to action.
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COLBERT: Surviving the death of a child
The loss of a child is the unthinkable, the unimaginable. No one knows how to cope with it until it happens to you, writes Cynthia Colbert, president and CEO of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
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