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Wheelchair Sundays: Changing lives for those in need

Through an initiative called Wheelchair Sundays, parishes in the diocese have contributed $661,000 of the $1.2 million raised in Texas. The effort is made possible by a partnership between the American Wheelchair Mission, the Knights of Columbus, and diocesan parishes.

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A goodbye that marks new beginnings

After more than four decades of priesthood, 33 of the years serving in the Diocese of Dallas, Father Eduardo González is retiring from parish service, leaving behind strong bonds of fraternity and robust spiritual roots.

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Bishop Kelly: The rosary, a language of faith

The rosary as we have it today developed over many centuries. As early as the 2nd or 3rd century, monks in the desert used knotted ropes as they prayed. The rosary itself became known as “The Poor Man’s Breviary.” Since most people couldn’t read or pray the 150 Psalms of the Bible as was done in monasteries, the practice of substituting an Our Father and later a Hail Mary for each of the Psalms gradually grew up. Mysteries were added later still, focal points for reflecting on the key events in the life of Jesus and Mary, from the Annunciation to the Crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth.