The 5th Annual St. Patrick School Shamrock Shuffle 5K Run/ Walk and 1K Leprechaun Chase will be on March 16 from 9-11 a.m. at Cassiday's, located on 601 Water Street. The event will include music, refreshments, awards, costume contest and prizes.

Incarnate Word Academy is hosting an Academic Contest that will offer private school students an opportunity to compete in 13 different comprehensive academic events. The Academic Contest will be held at Incarnate Word Academy on Saturday, May 4.

Best-selling author, popular speaker and Theology of the Body teacher Christopher West and acclaimed musician Mike Mangione are bringing their powerful event that explores the meaning of our lives, Made for More, on Feb. 7 to Most Precious Blood Catholic Church, 3502 Saratoga Blvd. in Corpus Christi.

Amy Ayala, a student from St. John Paul High School (class of 2019), has been awarded the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Presidential Scholarship in the amount of $16,000.

Six students from St. John Paul II High School Rotary Interact Club assisted the Rotary Club of Southside Corpus Christi in building a ramp for an elderly couple on Dec. 15.

During December, before the Christmas break, sixth-graders from St. Pius X School participated in a national Americal history contest sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Seminarians of the Diocese of Corpus Christi were treated to an evening of praying, socializing, dining, gift giving and well-wishing at the Advent Day of Reflection and Dinner with Bishop Michael Mulvey.

St. John Paul II High School teachers participated in a Professional Development Program on Jan. 4 in the Computer Lab on campus.

For nearly a half-century, the Catholic Church in the United States has celebrated National Migration Week, which is an opportunity for the Church to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking.

Ss. Cyril and Methodius teachers analyzed testing results and drafted plans with their colleagues to improve teaching and learning in the classrooms on a Professional Development Data Seminar on Jan. 4.

It is now a month or so into the new liturgical year and a new calendar year as well!  So now what spiritually? How did your Advent and Christmas season go?  For most people, these two seasons evaporated.  Again, I ask now what?  And the answer: Ordinary Time.

For many years now, I’ve tried, but have been unable to see them. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong, but I have always been completely oblivious to the hidden images in stereograms.

Every year, Christians across the world gather in prayer during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The week takes place Jan. 18-25. The theme selected by the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (which includes the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) is: “Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue” (cf. Deuteronomy 16:20).