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Family, faith help shape seminarian’s vocation

Nick’s parents, Amy and Corey Weiss, reminisced on this journey from childhood whimsy to God-given vocation and divulged their own experience of accompanying a child through the discernment process.

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Parish community bids farewell as longtime pastor retires

Lisa Linnebur promised herself there would be no tears on Father Stephen Mocio’s final day before retiring as pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Denison; but after nearly 10 years as one of Father Mocio’s closest advisors and friends, it was harder to say goodbye than she thought it would be.

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Parents reflect on daughter’s path to religious life

In a decades-old family photo, an infant Julie Elizabeth Martin — now Sister Juliana Guadalupe, S.V. — is bundled in pink and tucked snuggly into a stroller. Then one month old, the young Martin is pictured alongside her parents and brother during a pro-life rally at the Rhode Island State House.

Image from the Harber family's GoFundMe. Blair, 13, and Brooke, 11, are in the center.
St. Rita community mourns loss of siblings in Central Texas floods

As the St. Rita Catholic Community continues to process the devastating events that unfolded in the Texas Hill Country over the July 4th holiday, the community joins countless others in mourning the heartbreaking loss of two of its students, Blair and Brooke Harber, whose young lives were tragically cut short by flash flooding along the Guadalupe River.

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Young men explore call to priesthood at Calling of Andrew retreat

Sixty-four young men representing 46 different schools and 27 parishes across the Diocese of Dallas gathered May 31 for the 2025 Calling of Andrew: Venite et Videte Retreat, an immersive weekend designed to help them prayerfully discern whether God may be calling them to the priesthood.