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Just three months before Hurricane Celia devastated the Coastal Bend in August 1970, Our Lady of the Assumption in Ingleside earned the designation as a full-fledged parish in the Diocese of Corpus Christi. Since 1951, the community's faithful had been considered a mission under the guidance of St. Mary Star of the Sea in Aransas Pass.

Spirituality is the individual approach to one’s relationship with God. It involves making use of the tools of prayer and devotion, which help us live as Christians the best way possible. Spirituality is, therefore, personal and many details of our spirituality will be largely dependent on our preferences.

In America, we all too often tend to substitute blame for analysis.

Q. I am grateful for your informative comments in a previous column regarding annulments. But they have generated an additional question for which I seem to be getting different answers. If one of the spouses alone, without any additional witnesses, attests that he or she was not committed to the marriage but went through with it anyway, is that by itself enough to obtain an annulment? (New Berlin, Wisconsin)

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has long championed universal access to health care. Nonetheless, it continues to voice moral concerns about the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act because it forces opponents of abortion-related services to pay for them.

Every person? s life is marked by both sorrows and joys. The two often intertwine in such a way as to make one impossible without the other.

In Chapters 1 and 2 of St. Luke’s Gospel, we read the accounts of Jesus’ infancy. Then in Chapters 3 through 8, Luke tells us of episodes in the public life of Jesus.

Corpus Christi has played a vital role in the Schoenstatt Movement for more than half of its existence. The Movement, founded by Father Joseph Kentenich in 1914, is observing its centennial jubilee this year, and the Corpus Christi Schoenstatt Movement Center is part of the worldwide celebration.

About 65 campers with special needs attended the Father Walsh Annual Summer Camp on July 8-9 at Our Lady of Corpus Christi campus, culminating with the Annual Deaf Picnic on July 13 at West Guth Park.

The time in a young Catholic’s life right after high school is crucial because it will shape their path for the rest of their lives, said Deacon Alfonso Ramirez, director of the Young Adult and Campus office in the Diocese of Corpus Christi.

El papa Francisco dijo ante un grupo de jóvenes que están discerniendo una vocación religiosa que nunca caminen solos, sino que siempre se queden con su madre, María.

Las trágicas muertes de miles de hombres, mujeres y niños mientras buscan un mejor futuro deberían activar la compasión y la acción, no la indiferencia, dijo el papa Francisco.

Un reciente sábado por la mañana andaba caminando por las calles rezando el rosario. Me di cuenta de cuatro personas que iban caminando en la misma dirección. Por un lado dos mujeres muy bien vestidas, una ya grande, la otra joven, tocaban a cada puerta. Por el otro lado, un hombre de edad avanzada y una joven hacían lo mismo.

Pidiendo perdón, el papa Francisco le dijo a sobrevivientes del abuso que las “acciones despreciables” causadas por clérigos han sido ocultadas durante demasiado tiempo y habían sido “camufladas con una complicidad que no se puede explicar”.

Petitions and letters to members of Congress and the Obama administration are among the measures being pursued by advocates urging humane treatment of the Central American children who are trying to migrate to the United States.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was barely out of the clerk’s box June 30 before pundits, partisans and parties to related lawsuits were staking out claims about what the decision means.

Representatives of the world’s Catholic bishops, meeting together in a synod, are not expected to make any formal proposals about the church’s pastoral care of families until after a second, larger gathering in 2015.

The working document for the October 2014 extraordinary Synod of Bishops offers a picture of the Catholic Church today struggling to preach the Gospel and transmit moral teachings amid a “widespread cultural, social and spiritual crisis” of the family.

Sofie Perkins, Director of the Catholic Family Fraternal of Texas (K.J.Z.T.) presents a check from the Clerical Endowment Fund to Bishop Michael Mulvey for the education of young men entering the priesthood in the Corpus Christi Diocese.

Our Lady of the Rosary is having “Movie Nights” once a month in which they will feature faith-based entertainment, education and fellowship for families, Father Gabriel Coelho said. The movie night was inaugurated in June and will continue once a month at the Parish Hall located at 1123 Main Drive in Corpus Christi. There is a snack bar with variety of foods. Families from neighboring parishes are welcome. For show times call the parish office at (361) 241-2004. Regina Lewis, Our Lady of the Rosary