South Texas Catholic

The missionary image of Our Lady of Guadalupe can be viewed in churches, nursing homes, hospitals, prisons and more in Beeville, Skidmore and Pettus during August.

A grassroots non-profit organization, St. Paul Street Evangelization met with diners at Taqueria Valarta in Mathis on July 1, spreading the Word of God. They set up our table with Church-approved pamphlets on various subjects, such as the Eucharist, confession, the Virgin Mary, saints and many topics related to the Catholic faith.

Adriana Gerhart, former 5th grader at Sacred Heart School, won the Catholic Life Insurance Art Poster Contest, "Heroes Don't Always Wear Capes".

Recently, Sister Joni received a $5,000 scholarship from “Giving Voice” to travel to Mexico to learn more about the language and her heritage. Giving Voice is an organization based in Dubuque, Iowa, for women religious under the age of 50. According to its website, Giving Voice “creates spaces for younger women religious to give voice to their hopes, dreams and challenges in religious life.”

I know many of you ask the reason for the numerous national collections or in many people’s words the special collections. Let me list them for you: Aid to the Church in Central & Eastern Europe; Black and Indian Missions; Catholic Campaign for Human Development; Catholic Communications Campaign; Catholic Relief Services; Catholic University of America; Church in Latin America; Catholic Home Missions Appeal; Disaster Relief; Holy Land; Peter’s Pence; Respect Life; Retired Diocesan Priests Fund; Retirement Fund for Religious; Rice Bowl and World Mission Sunday.

Before I became a sister with the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, I felt I needed a super-power within me–the Holy Spirit to heed God’s call. I learned to pray to the Holy Spirit at every turn of event, “Come Holy Spirit.”

Three years ago, Michael Dewar was at a crossroads in his life. A long haul truck driver for the previous 16 years, running one red light and getting a traffic ticket was enough reason for his trucking company to terminate him immediately.

The critical issues facing high school age youth in their daily lives are bullying, drugs and pornography. In most cases, it’s not the schools that are to blame. According to some teenagers, it’s the breakdown of some of their own families.