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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

Winter storm’s grip doesn’t stop ministries, outreach in Dallas Diocese
- Feb 19, 2021
Despite the grip the historic winter storm had on north Texas, faith fueled outreach to Catholics and other community members in the Diocese of Dallas.

By Michael Gresham

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
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
Program helps poor, elderly Armenians heat homes in bitter winter weather
- Nov 2, 2019
Poor, elderly Armenians will receive an extra hand in staying warm during the upcoming frigid winter weather under a three-year-old program developed by two Catholic charitable agencies.

By Catholic News Service
Catholic Charities in Colorado scramble to beat cold weather
- Dec 4, 2016
Catholic Charities ran a cold weather shelter inside its Guadalupe Center in Greeley, Colorado, for years. It served as an overflow area to the full-time shelter that hosts single people and small families, but now excess demand is putting the operation at risk.

By Associated Press