In his message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Benedict XVI said:
“The Church prays everyday to the Holy Spirit for the gift of vocations. Gathered around the Virgin Mary, Queen of the Apostles, as in the beginning, the ecclesial community learns from her how to implore the Lord for a flowering of new […]

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A light for the city of Houston…
(Houston Chronicle)

This building is both the house of God on earth (domus Dei) and a house fit for the prayers of the saints (domus ecclesiae). (from Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture, and Worship 16)

The dedication of a cathedral is a once-in-lifetime (or several lifetimes) experience. I was privileged […]

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I hope to share some of my personal experience of  today’s dedication of the new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston soon. In the meantime, please take a look at some of the gracious coverage that the Houston media has done.
Houston Chronicle, particularly this video.
Channel 13 also has lots of interesting […]

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I hear about the terrible state of things in the Irish Catholic Church on that Protestant homeschooling forum that I hang out on as “proof” of the terrible state of the Catholic Church in general. Now I happen to think that personal bias of the person testifying to the disintegration of the Catholic Catholic Church […]

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