We are celebrating National Vocations Awareness Week. Family life can build values integral to a strong vocation — whether to priesthood, religious life, married life or single life. Teaching our children and grandchildren to value commitment, service and prayer will help them make strong vocation decisions as adults and live out those vocations with success and fulfillment. Check out this video to hear the "vocation story" of Fr. Dan, Fr. Gama and Erin Jones, daughter of parishioners, Adam and

It's National Vocations Awareness Week and at Corpus Christi, we are celebrating Vocations all month long, with a series of videos focused on vocations. Up first is a video we filmed earlier this year with Fr. Alex Valladares when we visited St. Bede the Venerable Catholic Church in Montgomery for our Jubilee Road Trip series. We were fortunate to also get to speak with Fr. Alex, who previously served as the Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of Mobile while Fr. Pat was in seminary, about hi

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops posted a “special message” in November denouncing “indiscriminate mass deportation of people” and other immigration policies being carried out by the Trump administration. The conference’s newly elected president, Archbishop Paul Coakley, told Margaret Brennan that he hasn’t spoken with the president or vice president, but if he does, “undoubtedly, the question of immigration is going to come up.” “I think we have opportunities to work together,”

The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley, says the deportations happening in the U.S. are instilling fear, and “that's something that concerns us all.” “We are a nation of immigrants ourselves,” Coakley told Margaret Brennan. “So, I think that's something that we, as Americans, need to always come back to. We are founded upon the immigrant experience. So I think we need to be generous in welcoming immigrants.” | Face The Nation