The Catholic Diocese of Tyler

Defending the Resurrection

Defending the Resurrection

by | Apr 19, 2022 | News

If someone asks you to identify the single most important doctrine in Christianity, how would you reply? It’s probably not the principle of double effect. Could it be the fall of Adam and Eve? Creation itself? The infallibility of Scripture? All of those are fine and...
Whose People?

Whose People?

by | Apr 14, 2022 | News

“We are an Easter people, and hallelujah is our song!”Pope St. John Paul II An assisting priest at my home parish always started his Palm Sunday homily with the same story. He had gone to Germany during Holy Week, where every ten years the Oberammergau Passion Play is...
Eucharistic Congress Registration Now Open

Eucharistic Congress Registration Now Open

by | Apr 12, 2022 | News

The Diocese of Tyler will celebrate its 35th anniversary as a diocese with a Eucharistic Congress in Tyler, TX, at Bishop Gorman High School on June 10 and 11, 2022. Registration is now open! Register here. The theme for this event will be “The Eucharist: Source and...
Pennie Vandenbroek’s Pro-Life Witness from Jail

Pennie Vandenbroek’s Pro-Life Witness from Jail

by | Apr 5, 2022 | News

It was a Saturday in May 1995. Pennie Vandenbroek prayerfully linked arms with about two dozen other men and women, blocking the entrance to what she described as a  “shabby little abortion clinic” in Los Angeles run by a doctor whose license was...