Pope Leo XIV met with the head of Israel’s Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center at the Vatican March 23.
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This month on “Diocese in the News,” we highlight a Church alive in faith and action. From hundreds of young people encountering God’s love at the 2026 Dallas Catholic Youth Conference, to a diocesan celebration honoring men and women in consecrated life, and a medical and catechetical mission bringing healing and hope from North Texas to Honduras — these stories show how the people of the Diocese of Dallas continue to respond to God’s call through prayer, service, and community.
As the U.S. and Israel-Iran war enters its fourth week, and amid a deep humanitarian crisis throughout the region, Pope Leo XIV appealed during his Sunday Angelus prayer March 22: “Persevere in prayer, so that hostilities may cease and paths of peace may finally open up, based on sincere dialogue and respect for the dignity of every human person.”
Marriage, like every vocation, “can only arise from a personal encounter with Christ,” with the Church offering the “precious tools” of community and witness to foster that experience, said the head of the Vatican’s key office for marriage and family life.
The life of the Christian is a homeward journey, a pilgrimage oriented toward salvation — but there are a lot of obstacles along the path: thorny entanglements with sin, muddied conceptions of the way forward, mounting exhaustion from the journey. Even the most well-intentioned believer can easily get “off course” in the pursuit of holiness, according to Father Arthur Unachukwu.
Un total de veintiún misioneros de la Diócesis de Dallas viajaron a la Diócesis de Trujillo, Honduras, del 20 al 27 de febrero para una misión médica y catequética que atendió a casi 1.000 pacientes y brindó formación a parejas de parroquias de toda la diócesis .
El grupo estaba integrado por cuatro misioneros catequéticos, cuatro voluntarios, un sacerdote —el padre Juan Torres de la parroquia católica María Inmaculada en Farmers Branch— y la hermana Edyta Krawczyk, CSFN. El equipo médico estaba compuesto por 11 profesionales, entre ellos dos médicos, un farmacéutico y ocho enfermeras. La misión médica se llevó a cabo en la Clínica La Semilla en Bonito Oriental.
Durante dos fines de semana de febrero, cientos de catecúmenos de parroquias de toda la Diócesis de Dallas se reunieron en la Catedral Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe para el Rito de Elección, un paso fundamental en su camino hacia los Sacramentos de Iniciación en la Iglesia Católica.
El obispo Edward J. Burns presidió las celebraciones los días 21 y 28 de febrero, oficiando dos liturgias cada sábado para dar cabida al creciente número de asistentes. En total, se celebraron cuatro liturgias del Rito de Elección y la Catedral se llenó por completo con catecúmenos y sus padrinos en cada una de ellas. Familiares e invitados abarrotaron el Gran Salón, lo que demuestra la magnitud de la participación y el apoyo recibido en la celebración de este año.
Israeli authorities closed Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher as part of wider closures for security concerns, beginning Feb. 28, when Israel and the United States launched attacks against Iran.
Once a young teenager wearing a cap and gown for his eighth-grade graduation photo in Chicago, today the famous former-student posed for a reunion picture wearing his papal zucchetto and cassock at the Vatican.
The sport with the greatest growth in participation and achievement at Saint Paul Catholic Classical School in Richardson is not football, basketball, or baseball, nor is it volleyball or tennis. No, the sport does not involve a ball at all — simply a bow and arrow and a target some distance away; it is the ancient sport of archery.