Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Here in the last full week of Lent prior to Holy Week we do well to ponder the grumblings of the ancient Hebrew people in the desert, for their grumblings are often ours as well. We are reading these passages in the Office of Readings just now, so it is the mind of the Church that we should meditate on them. ...

FR. MARK GORING: Director of the Catholic Charismatic Center in Houston, Texas

By Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, The Catholic Sun - The most effective armor against the lure of the devil’s influence is an intense life of grace that is generously offered through the sacramental life of the Church. In the Sacraments, Jesus Himself fights with us and for us. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines Sacraments as “efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us” (CCC 1131).

By Christine Rousselle, CNA/EWTN News - The bishops of central Texas have encouraged prayers for healing in a community reeling from a string of bombings over the last month... Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio and Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin issued a joint statement on Tuesday urging prayers for the victims of the serial bombings as well as prayers for law enforcement officials.