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Coffee, tacos and pan dulce will be available at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, July 28, at St. Joseph's Hall under Corpus Christi Cathedral as local Catholic youth groups and families of youth who journeyed to Brazil for World Youth Day gather to watch the concluding Papal Mass live from Rio de Janeiro. Those who gather will also be conversing with the Corpus Christi pilgrims by way of Skype.

"I saw the pope! I saw the pope!" yelled Hiago Ferreira de Araujo of Feira de Santana, Brazil, as he jumped up and down like a little kid who had just scored a goal.

Incarnate Word Academy fifth graders get opportunity to experience leadership at the elementary level's first ever Angel Leadership Workshop on Tuesday, July 30.

Catholic Youth from across the Diocese of Corpus Christi will gather tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the Corpus Christi International Airport to depart for Rio de Janeiro to join Pope Francis and a worldwide gathering of young people at this year’s World Youth Day.

Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey gave a blessing and welcomed 68 campers on June 24 at the Father Walsh Annual Summer Camp 2013. This year the camp was a 3-day event held indoors at the campus of Our Lady of Corpus Christi.

See "Songs that reach for God: CNS Video featuring Corpus Christi Cathedral Choir" and read about the Choir in a CNS article by Zoey Di Mauro.

Sister Olga Cardona, 61, a Sister of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, died peacefully at Incarnate Word Convent on Friday, July 5 after complications with cancer.

The Texas Catholic Conference (TCC) acknowledged with appreciation Governor Rick Perry’s expansion of the special legislative session to include pro-life and juvenile justice issues. With the expansion, lawmakers have an opportunity to make significant strides in passing pro-life legislation that was left pending in the 83rd Regular Session.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A diverse group of religious leaders, including Catholics, Protestants, evangelicals and a representative from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, issued an open letter July 2 urging the U.S. government to "expand conscience protections" in its Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The cardinals and archbishops who are members of the Congregation for Saints' Causes met July 2 and, according to Italian news reports, took steps to advance the sainthood causes of Blesseds John Paul II and John XXIII.

Many of us have probably heard single women talking among themselves about men, where one of them ends up saying, “That guy, he’s just a pervert – he’s only interested in sex.”

From the beginning of my tenure as editor of the South Texas Catholic, I have strived to be a good steward of the resources entrusted to me.

When he was elected as Paul VI just 50 years ago, Giovanni Battista Montini seemed the perfectly prepared pope.

Toward the end of our last article on “Growth in Prayer,” we mentioned “my sense of loss when, as happens from time to time, I cannot seem to find Him (God).”

The fundamental vocation of every human person directs men and women to seek God, to know him and to love him with all their strength.

Father Jean F. Hart, 87, a priest with the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) for 23 years, died Wednesday, June 19, after a long illness.

The French author Andre Maurois wrote, “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” Alton and Rosalie Jones have shared such a relationship. On June 6 they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary surrounded by family and friends.