Texas Catholic Conference Archives

Texas bishops oppose bill that would end handgun permit requirement

May 4, 2021

Texas Catholic bishops said they are opposed to a bill pending in the state legislature that would allow people to carry handguns without a permit.

By Catholic News Service

Winter storm halts nearly everything but Texas hospitality

Feb 24, 2021

The Burton family from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were on the way home from a New Mexico skiing vacation when the worst winter storm in recent Texas history brought the state to a perpetual halt.

By Ricardo Gandara

Bishops say fellow Texans’ help for one another amid storm is ‘edifying’

Feb 22, 2021

The Catholic bishops of Texas said Feb. 20 that the generosity of their fellow Texans reaching out to help their neighbors, even while they are also managing their own needs during a historic winter storm, “is truly edifying.”

By Catholic News Service

U.S. bishops’ pro-life chair calls plan to codify Roe in federal law ‘tragic’

Jan 26, 2021

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee called it “deeply disturbing and tragic” that any U.S. president would mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Roe decision that legalized abortion by praising it and committing to codifying it in law.

By Catholic News Service

US Supreme Court halts Texas execution over clergy question

Jun 17, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Juan A. Lozano

Texas set to resume executions after delay due to pandemic

Jun 16, 2020

HOUSTON — A Texas inmate condemned for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago was scheduled to die by injection Tuesday, as the nation’s busiest death penalty state prepared to resume executions following a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. Prosecutors said Ruben Gutierrez, 43, was

By Juan A. Lozano

Federal appeals court clears way for Texas execution

Jun 14, 2020

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the execution to proceed next week of a man condemned for the fatal stabbing more than 20 years ago of an 85-year-old woman.

By Associated Press

Judge blocks Trump’s order on state refugee resettlement

Jan 16, 2020

A federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction Jan. 15 blocking the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order that would allow state and local government officials to reject resettling refugees in their jurisdictions.

By Carol Zimmermann