Vocations

April 27, 2021 | posted by Sister Charlotte Kitowski, CDP

Could Czech immigrants Francis and Catherine Svec Fikac ever have thought that four of their daughters -- Mary, Katie, Sophie and Annie -- would one day minister in 27 parishes across the state as Sisters of Divine Providence? Could these sisters -- Sisters Prisca, Sylvester, Dennis and Mildred Fikac -- ever have imagined that one day their great-nephew (Gary William Janak) would become bishop? In God’s Providence these thoughts became reality.

April 27, 2021 | posted by Jose Santiago Perez

As I get closer to the end of my college years at Assumption Seminary, and prepare to graduate from Mexican American Catholic College and University of Incarnate Word, I have begun to reflect on these past four years that I spent as a collegian at Assumption Seminary.

April 27, 2021 | posted by Today's Catholic newspaper

Last month a somber anniversary was observed. It has been one year since the archdiocese was affected by the spread of the coronavirus. Assumption Seminary made the difficult, yet necessary, decision to close the campus and send the seminarians home in March 2020. Seminary life became virtual.

April 27, 2021 | posted by Today's Catholic newspaper

Monsignor Arnold “Buzz” Anthony Anders, the longest serving priest in the Diocese of Victoria, went to his eternal reward on Easter Sunday, April 4. Father Anders, as he preferred to be called, was born in Dubina on Dec. 11, 1926, to Frank and Annie Guenther Anders.