News - March 2020 RSS Feed

When I hear that a Catholic school closes or struggles to stay open, my heart aches. There are more than 14 million school-age Catholic children in our country, 8 million of them Hispanic. If anything, we should be building Catholic schools, especially where Catholicism is growing. At the very least, we should keep those that exist open and primarily at the service of the new populations transforming the U.S. Catholic experience.

On Feb. 27, out of pastoral concern for the common good of the people of God during flu and virus season, Most Rev. Joe Vásquez, Bishop of Austin, asked parishes to temporarily distribute holy Communion in the hand, rather than on the tongue. Bishop Vásquez made it clear to clergy and eucharistic ministers that no one is to be denied the Eucharist over this measure.

Students from Holy Trinity Catholic High School attended the 47th annual March for Life Jan. 24 in Washington. The group traveled by bus from Temple to the nation’s capital, stopping a long the way for Mass.

Exciting changes are underway for Catholic education in the Waco area. In January St. Louis Catholic School merged with Reicher Catholic High School to form Bishop Louis Reicher Catholic School. This school now serves grades pre-K through 12.