The Roman Catholic

San Rafael Expeditions, a Catholic missionary organization rooted in West Texas, has joyfully returned from its inaugural mission trip to serve the people of Honduras. Our team of 21 dedicated missionaries offered seven days of medical care to communities with limited or no access to health services.

In the ongoing crisis in Gaza, Christians and other innocent victims of violence are struggling to survive, protect their children, and live with dignity in dire conditions. The Holy Father Pope Leo XIV continues to call for aid to enter the territory, noting with great sorrow that “Gaza is starving.” The Catholic Church is there providing emergency humanitarian relief through the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS).

En el mundo actual, la gente trabaja más horas, pasa más tiempo en línea, y se toma menos días de vacaciones más que nunca. Nuestras agendas están tan llenas, es comprensible que algunos sientan que no tienen tiempo para ir a la iglesia. Algunos dejaron de asistir a Misa por alguna razón y aún no han vuelto. En este artículo, me gustaría ofrecer varias buenas razones para ir a Misa.

In today’s world, people work longer hours, spend more time online, and take fewer vacation days than ever before. Our schedules get so full, it is understandable how some people feel they don’t have time to go to church. Some got out of the practice of attending Mass for whatever reason and have not yet found their way back. In this article, I would like to offer a variety of good reasons to come to Mass.

St. John Henry Newman — the 19th-century theologian, intellectual, and preacher who journeyed from Anglicanism to Catholicism, powerfully shaping religious thought in both faith traditions — will be named a doctor of the church by Pope Leo XIV.

Her name says it all. For more than 700 years, she has been known as “St. Christina the Astonishing.” Every biographer calls her that.

June 29 is a special day in the life of the Perpetual Adoration Chapel, located next door to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Abilene.

Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami and some 25 Knights of Columbus saddled up their motorcycles to pray a rosary at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial migrant detention center recently opened in the Florida Everglades.

Every spring, the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis offers an opportunity for people of the diocese to be recognized with a little more than a simple “thank you.” Parishes are asked to nominate youth, young adults, and adults to be recognized for the ways they contribute to their parish and civic communities, as well as the larger church.