Bishop Daniel Flores

What does a bishop think sitting next to the pope? “My mother’s scolding ‘sit up straight!'”
- Jan 24, 2020
On Friday, President Donald Trump will become the first U.S. president to attend the March for Life in Washington. According to Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, his participation is a political move in an election year.

By Inés San Martín
Pope urges bishops to teach discernment, including on political issues
- Jan 20, 2020
Sometimes the political choices people face can seem like a choice between supporting a “snake” or supporting a “dragon,” but Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops their job is to step back from partisan politics and help their faithful discern based on values, said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

By Catholic News Service
Texas Catholics decry Governor’s decision to spurn refugees
- Jan 13, 2020
Catholics in Texas are calling on the state’s governor to reconsider his decision not to allow refugee resettlement.

By Christopher White

At year’s end, humanitarian aid for migrants moves across border
- Dec 21, 2019
Over the last year, Catholic dioceses on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, in places such as El Paso and Brownsville, Texas, scrambled to accommodate the growing number of children, men and women crossing the border, seeking asylum and entering the U.S.

By Rhina Guidos
Knights continue humanitarian efforts to help dioceses provide aid to migrants
- Dec 21, 2019
A border divides them, but when it comes to helping the men, women and children caught in the immigration drama playing out in the area that straddles Mexico and the United States, Catholic dioceses are acting as one humanitarian body.

By Rhina Guidos
IDs give parishioners way to say, ‘I belong,’ regardless of legal status
- Oct 13, 2019
The Diocese of Brownsville and a group of interfaith leaders in the Rio Grande Valley have introduced a “parish identification strategy” to provided members of parishes in the diocese a way to identify themselves to local law enforcement regardless of their legal status.

By Paul Binz