Category: Church
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New York, New York
May 16-22, 2006, I will be in New York City attending the Paulist Fathers Pre-Assembly and Ordinations. The Paulist Fathers, the religious order that the Diocese entrusts with campus ministry at The University of Texas at Austin, has an “assembly” every four years where priest-delegates determine the direction of the order for the following four…
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i made national press!
I was quoted in a column published by the National Catholic Reporter today. John Allen Jr., considered by some the expert English-speaking Vatican reporter, visited the University Catholic Center recently and then interviewed a group of students, myself included, the next day. In today’s “The Word From Rome”, in the fourth section, he highlights all…
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church robberies in the austin area
It’s sad that alerts like this exists. This came from the Chancellor of the Diocese of Austin. This is to alert you to a series of robberies that has been occurring in some parishes around the diocese. There have been three instances in the Austin area in which a white male in his 30’s driving…
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broken lent
Today is Monday of the Second Week of Lent. Today is the 13th day of Lent 2006. For 13 days, we have fasted, sacrificed, prayed more, and done more good works than we had 14 days ago. We come up with these great ideas on what we’re able to do. I’m going to give up…
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head’s up: the pope drops a title
It has been reported that Pope Benedict XVI has dropped the title “Patriarch of the West” from his list of official titles. I’m still reading up more on this to understand the decision but in short, it looks like he’s trying to smooth things over with the Orthodox and Eastern Rites. The use of “Patriarch”…
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are you comfortable with change?
Two years ago today, liturgically speaking that is, I attended Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Austin. During the homily, given by Bishop Aymond, there was a line that struck me. Change is always seen as a negative thing in our lives because it interferes with our level of comfortability. Might I…