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Bishop Strickland's New Book
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Joint Statement from Bishop Strickland and E. TX Hospitals
November 24, 2020, Tyler, Texas
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland is sharing the following joint statement from CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances and UT Health East Texas hospitals, issued on Nov. 23, 2020:CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances & UT Health East Texas Joint Statement – COVID-19
To the communities we serve,
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Texas Attorney General: Religious Schools Are Exempt From Local COVID Rules
July 30, 2020
Attorney General Ken Paxton said local public health ordinances must be consistent with the governor’s orders and the attorney general’s guidance, adding that local governments are “prohibited from closing religious institutions or dictating mitigation strategies to those institutions.” Read the story. -
COVID-19 Pastoral Letter - Public Liturgies (Effective July 3, 2020)
For new guidelines Bishop Strickland issued for Public Liturgies, click here.
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COVID-19 Pastoral Letter - Vaccine
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Catholics Can't Win By Compromising With Liberalism
February 2, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Scott Hahn is one of the most recognizable names in the Catholic Church today. He joined me on my podcast this week to talk about his latest book, “It is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion.” Dr. Hahn told me that many Catholics who live in America forget that “there’s a perennial [Church] teaching about the relationship between the supernatural order and the natural order” and that US Catholics often forget this, adopting a sort of Stockholm syndrome toward their secularist “captors” in the process. Read the story.
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What Every Catholic Should Know About the Mexico City Policy
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Joe Biden struck down bans on U.S. funding of international pro-abortion groups, an act that could have far-reaching consequences.
Biden on Thursday issued a sweeping presidential memorandum on “Protecting Women's Health at Home and Abroad,” repealing the Mexico City Policy and the Trump administration’s expansion of it. Read the story.
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Cardinal Dolan: Right to Religious Freedom Rooted in Human Dignity
18 January, 2021
Cardinal Dolan reiterates that the right to religious freedom is rooted in the dignity of the human person.The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty has reiterated that the right to religious freedom is "rooted in the dignity of the human person", noting, however, that today the United States are “driven by political and cultural factionalism, where competing groups seek not truth but rather mere power”. In a statement for Religious Freedom Day, which the Country celebrated on January 16, Cardinal Timothy Dolan lamented that: “Appeals to objective truth are treated as attempts to oppress” and that “narrative and spin” are used “as weapons of choice”. Read the story... -
New St. Francis of the Tejas Acolytes Installed
Chapel of Sts. Peter and Paul, Tyler, TX.
In a ceremony held on November 7, 2020, in the Chapel of Sts. Peter and Paul, Tyler, Tx., Steve Ecord and James Rankin of St. Francis of the Tejas Catholic Church gathered with some 50 other members of the Catholic laity, representing parishes from all areas of the Diocese of Tyler, to be installed as acolytes by the Most Reverend Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop of Tyler.
This brings the number of installed Acolytes for St. Francis of the Tejas to four - Steve Ecord, Ronald Foster, James Rankin and Charles Slanina.
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Every Vote Counts
"A nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves. If a time ever comes when the religious Jews, Protestants, and Catholics ever have to suffer under a totalitarian state, which would deny them the right to worship God according to the light of their conscience, it will be because for years they thought it made no difference what kind of people represented them in Congress, and because they abandoned the spiritual in the realm of the temporal."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen