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Diocese again found in compliance with bishops' Charter
TYLER
– The Diocese of Tyler has again been declared in compliance with the
U.S. bishops' 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young
People.
Martin
Gallagher of the Gavin Group, a Boston-based firm contracted by the
U.S. bishops' Office of Child and Youth Protection to audit the 195
dioceses and eparchies in the U.S., was in the diocese Aug. 13-16. He
reviewed the diocese's policies and procedures for dealing with
allegations of abuse, as well as the Ethics and Integrity training
process for church personnel and volunteers and the new Safe Environment Program, designed to raise awareness of safety issues
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Texas, Honduras dioceses explore, expand relationship
By SUSAN DE MATTEO
TYLER
– The Dioceses of Tyler, San Angelo and San Pedro Sula, Honduras,
continued to explore and deepen their relationship as representatives
from the three communities met in Tyler Aug. 27-29.
Through
business meetings at the chancery, a morning spent at Bishop T.K.
Gorman Catholic Middle and High School, a lunch hosted by Prince of
Peace Parish in Whitehouse and evenings spent with local families,
teams from the three dioceses
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Newest priest's personal history flows into church
TYLER
– Deacon Paul Key's personal history flowed into and became part of the
eternal history of Christ's church at his ordination to the priesthood,
said Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ.
"The
whole of Christian history appears to us a single river into which many
tributaries flow," Bishop Corrada said at the Sept. 1 ordination Mass
celebrated in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. "That river
started from the events at Bethlehem, from the cross and resurrection
of Christ, and flows through all of human history, through our personal
histories.
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From bishop to pews, team effort nurtures Tyler seminarians
By SUSAN DE MATTEO
TYLER
– The bountiful crop of seminarians for the Diocese of Tyler is the
result of a team effort that extends from Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ, to
the people in the pews, according to Father Eduardo Nevares, assistant
director of the vocations office.
The
diocese boasts an astounding number of 21 men currently enrolled in
seminaries, one who has been accepted as a seminarian and is finishing
up his undergraduate work, another who has been accepted as an
aspirant, and two transitional deacons active in full-time parish
ministry and awaiting ordination to the priesthood.
A third transitional deacon, Paul Key, was ordained a priest Sept. 1.
In
addition to priestly vocations, the diocese has some 40 men nearing
ordination to the permanent diaconate and 13 young women beginning a
yearlong process of discernment for the religious life. Six young women
from East Texas have entered various religious communities over the
past couple of years, according to Father Nevares.
Not bad for a 20-year-old mission diocese whose 68 parishes and missions
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