Calling it a privilege and an honor, Bishop Edward J. Burns ordained 17 men as permanent deacons for the Diocese of Dallas during a Mass celebrated May 21 at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in McKinney.
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He calls it a stirring, that visceral feeling that God was calling him to do more. He first felt it 16 years ago but as he looks back to that time, he knows he wasn’t ready. Chris Schraeder of McKinney, one of the 17 candidates scheduled to be ordained to the diaconate on May 21, said he feels ready now.
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A former Southern Baptist who converted to Catholicism nearly 30 years ago is scheduled for ordination into the diaconate on May 21. Daryl Avery, a Texan since birth, is one of 17 permanent deacon candidates and calls St. Monica in Dallas his parish home.
Father Martin Castañeda of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sherman blesses a new statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary located at the entrance of St. Mary’s Catholic School on May 13.
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As their friends readied to depart for beaches and other festive locales, one group of students from Southern Methodist University set their sights on a different kind of destination.
Fusion Corps (FR 6672), the robotics team from Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving, won the 2022 FIRST Robotics Competition world championship as part of a four-team alliance. Of the six division winning alliances, Fusion Corps was the only Texas team represented. The international tournament, which took place in Houston, April 20-23, featured 456 teams from 12 countries and 43 U.S. states and more than 37,000 people in attendance.
A group of students at John Paul II High School’s Social Innovation Lab is exploring how to build strong communities in a digital age while remaining rooted in the Catholic Church’s teachings. Their efforts have earned the lab one of only 17 invitations nationwide to a program at The University of Notre Dame.
Two lives immersed in the Catholic faith — one whose life journey has led to becoming a bishop, the other about to be further shaped following college graduation in a few weeks – were recognized when SMU’s Catholic Campus Ministry celebrated its 90th anniversary with a dinner held at the Bush Institute on campus on Saturday, April 23. Bishop Greg Kelly provided opening remarks and the blessing.
Bishop Michael Duca — now leading the Diocese of Baton Rouge, La. — served as the campus ministry’s chaplain from 1985 through 1994 and was honored as this year’s winner of the Servant Leader Award. In the weeks before he was summoned to Rome 28 years ago to spend two years studying canon law, he started the process that led to the construction of the ministry’s now-27-year-old center at the corner of University Boulevard and Airline Road.