Texas

Dallas bishop will convene diocesan synod; it’ll be a 10-year process
- Mar 4, 2021
Recognizing the pandemic has taken its toll on discipleship and could lead to the faithful in the Diocese of Dallas becoming complacent, Bishop Edward J. Burns announced he will convene a synod in the diocese Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

By Catholic News Service
Brownsville diocesan agency ready to help asylum-seekers entering U.S.
- Feb 24, 2021
Just as the coldest weather in more than 30 years brought new misery to asylum-seekers stranded in a refugee camp in Mexico, an end to their plight may be in sight.

By Paul Binz, CNS
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

Houston Catholics struggle with historic storm, power outages
- Feb 20, 2021
The historic winter storms in February shattered electric plants across Texas, prompting energy providers to force blackouts across the state to preserve what fragile electricity they could generate. At least 49 deaths have been linked to the storms and subsequent power outages.

By James Ramos
As storm paralyzes much of Texas, Catholic charities shift into overdrive
- Feb 19, 2021
For almost a week, through an historic winter storm, Father Pat O’Brien and others at St. Pius X Catholic Church in San Antonio have operated under a simple mantra: “whatever the need is we will be open.”

By John Lavenburg
Severe weather prompts emergency response from church leaders as Lent begins
- Feb 18, 2021
Below-zero temperatures, teeth-chattering wind chills and deep snow turned the southern Plains into an Arctic landscape, forcing Catholic Charities agencies to adopt emergency measures to get people to safety.

By Dennis Sadowski
Amid record snow, Texas scrambles to reconfigure Ash Wednesday
- Feb 17, 2021
Parishes across the state of Texas have canceled Ash Wednesday masses amidst a winter storm that’s left over three million people without power and brought record low temperatures all week.

By John Lavenburg