By LORETTA FULTON Talk about a match made in heaven. That certainly is an apt phrase for the Fishers of Men Award and Monsignor Fred Nawarskas, the 2022 honoree. “Father Fred,” as he is called by all who know him, was honored Saturday, Oct. 1, at the ninth annual Fishers of Men dinner in Odessa. The award is given by
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Fun and food will be served up in ample portions in the coming weeks as several churches in the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo host fall festivals. The ones either in Abilene or within driving distance are listed below. First up is Abilene’s St. Francis of Assisi Church on Saturday, Oct. 1. The church is located at 826 Cottonwood St.
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Relics of St. Manuel Gonzalez and Blessed Carlo Acutis will be available for veneration in parishes around the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo until July 10. The relics are touring the dioceses of the country as part of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year focus on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Both St. Gonzalez and Blessed Acutis
Read moreOn Friday, June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion. Friday’s 6-3 ruling came in a case that originated in Mississippi styled Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Almost immediately, churches and other institutions began weighing in on the decision that reverses almost 50 years of federal protections for abortion. The
Read moreSusan Pigott will be ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons in a ceremony June 23 at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest. Two local Catholics were ordained as deacons by Bishop Michael Sis of the Diocese of San Angelo on June 4. They were among 14 deacons ordained by Sis during a Mass held at the Dorothy Garrett
Read moreThe Catholic Diocese of San Angelo will kick off the diocesen year of the National Eucharistic Revival with a Mass on Saturday, June 18. The Mass, celebrated by Bishop Michael Sis, will begin at 4 p.m. in the Cathedral Church of the Sacred Heart in San Angelo. A Eucharistic procession to the river will follow. Afterward, Father Ryan Rojo will
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Bishop Michael Sis of the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo wrote the following column for the West Texas Angelus, the diocesan newspaper. It is reprinted here with permission. By BISHOP MICHAEL SIS Christmas is a celebration of the Incarnation of God. It commemorates the fact that the eternal Son of God took human flesh and become one of us for
Read moreBishop Michael Sis of the Diocese of San Angelo, will preside over a Mass at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 12 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Millersview, located near Paint Rock in Concho County. Dec. 12 is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The following excerpt from Franciscan Media tells the legend of Our Lady of Guadalupe:
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By LORETTA FULTON Everywhere Rev. Albert Ezeanya has served in the Diocese of San Angelo, church members have given him a cowboy hat–a reminder that he’s no longer in his native Nigeria. Oh, and they give him another gift, too. He proudly wears his cowboy hats “all the time,” but perhaps the second gift is even more endearing. “They say,
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