San Angelo and surrounding area families will have another option for their child's education when Angelo Catholic School expands with the opening of a middle school.
Every day we read or hear about heroes in our country. Some are men and women in uniform – in the military, police officers, firemen who are in the service of their country and/or in their line of duty. Some are ordinary citizens from all walks of life who have done incredible acts in a single occasion when someone is in danger or needs help for some other reason. Whether they are awarded a medal, lauded in the media, honored as a celebrity or not, they all deserve our praise and gratitude.
You are becoming members of the oldest continually existing institution in the world. We outlived the cruel persecution of the powerful Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Goths, and the Vandals.
Fr. Sam Matthiesen will represent the Diocese of San Angelo as a Missionary of Mercy, receiving a special mandate from Pope Francis during the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.
UPDATED WITH DISCUSSION OF THE TEXT IN SPANISH. Pope Francis has released an apostolic exhortation on the family called 'Amoris Laetitia'. Click through to find text from Bishop Sis's news conference on the document, a summary, questions and answers, and the full text of the exhortation in both English and Spanish.
La retórica y las acciones de los líderes de ISIS se centran en lo que los separa de los demás. Con crueldad descorazonada, atacan y destruyen todo lo que es diferente de sí mismos. Si todo el mundo actuara de esa manera, la raza humana se autoexterminaría en un tiempo muy corto.
The rhetoric and the actions of the leaders of ISIS focus on what divides them from everyone else. With heartless cruelty, they lash out and destroy whatever is different from themselves. If everyone in the world acted like that, the human race would self-exterminate in a very short time.