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A monument of the Ten Commandments is pictured in front of a church in Uvalde, Texas, June 1, 2022. (OSV News/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

US appeals court allows Texas schools to display Ten Commandments

Kate Scanlon|Apr 22, 2026|4 Min Read

A monument of "God's Ten Commandments" is pictured in front of a church in Uvalde, Texas, June 1, 2022. A federal judge on Aug. 20, 2025, partially blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, finding the law violated the First Amendment. (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Federal judge blocks Texas 10 Commandments law from being enforced in some school districts

Kate Scanlon|Aug 21, 2025|3 Min Read

A box containing a mifepristone tablet is pictured Feb. 28, 2023. A Texas woman sued a supplier of mifepristone and a former sexual partner in a lawsuit filed Aug. 11, 2025, in federal court., alleging the former partner spiked her drink with abortifacient drugs -- mifepristone and misoprostol -- without her knowledge, terminating her pregnancy without her consent. (OSV News photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)

Texas woman sues ex-partner, abortion pill provider, alleging she was given drugs without consent

Kate Scanlon|Aug 13, 2025|3 Min Read

First responders attend to a vehicle pulled from the water in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Kerrville, Texas, July 6, 2025. At least 82 people are dead and at least 41 more are missing after devastating flash floods slammed the Texas Hill Country, with water rescues taking place along the Guadalupe River, which rose rapidly early July 4 to the height of a two-story building. Among the missing were almost a dozen from Camp Mystic in Kerr County, a children's summer camp, officials said July 6. (OSV News photo/Sergio Flores, Reuters)

Catholics mourn, offer support, as Texas flood's catastrophic death toll rises

Lauretta Brown|Jul 7, 2025|4 Min Read

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, MSpS, speaks July 5 on the flooding in Kerr County that has left at least 50 dead and many more missing. (OSV News photo/Screenshot via Catholic Television of San Antonio)

San Antonio Archbishop García-Siller asks for prayers, solidarity following Texas flooding tragedy

OSV News|Jul 5, 2025|4 Min Read

A migrant family is dropped off Dec. 13, 2022, at a local migrant shelter run by the Annunciation House in downtown El Paso, Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sought to shut down the shelter, alleging among other things that the organization facilitates illegal border crossings. On May 30, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and said Paxton can move forward with his investigation into Annunciation House. (OSV News photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre, Reuters)

Texas Supreme Court permits Paxton's Annunciation House probe to proceed

Kate Scanlon|May 30, 2025|2 Min Read

A migrant family is dropped off Dec. 13, 2022, at a local migrant shelter run by the Annunciation House in downtown El Paso, Texas. The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Jan. 13, 2025, in the state's attorney general's case against Annunciation House, which has been helping immigrants at the U.S.-Texas border. (OSV News photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre, Reuters)

Texas Supreme Court hears arguments in AG's attempt to shut down Catholic ministry to migrants

Kate Scanlon|Jan 14, 2025|3 Min Read

Then-Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, left, alongside then-Msgr. J. Gregory Kelly, right, after he was appointed a new auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Dallas in 2015. It was announced Dec. 20, 2024, that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kelly as bishop of Tyler, Texas. (OSV News file photo/Ron Heflin, The Texas Catholic)

Bishop J. Gregory Kelly named to Texas diocese after Bishop Strickland's removal

Gina Christian|Dec 20, 2024|3 Min Read

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks ahead of a rally held by former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Robstown, Texas, Oct. 22, 2022. Paxton filed a lawsuit Dec. 12, 2024, against a New York doctor who illegally sent abortion pills to a pregnant woman in Texas. (OSV News photo/Go Nakamura, Reuters)

Texas AG sues NY doctor for prescribing abortion pills to Dallas woman

Kate Scanlon|Dec 13, 2024|2 Min Read

Sister Teresa Agnes Gerlach of Jesus Crucified, former prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, and Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, are pictured in an undated combination photo. The Holy See declared the Texas monastery "extinct" in a decree Nov. 28, 2024, a month after its residents were dismissed from the Carmelite order and religious life over "their notorious defection from the Catholic faith" following a bitter feud with Bishop Olson over his April 2023 investigation of the former prioress. (OSV News photo/courtesy Matthew Bobo and Bob Roller)

Vatican suppresses Texas monastery after Carmelite order dismissed its nuns

Maria Wiering|Dec 3, 2024|4 Min Read

Sister Teresa Agnes Gerlach of Jesus Crucified, former prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, and Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, are pictured in an undated combination photo. Members of the women's religious community have been dismissed from the Carmelite order and Catholic religious life, according to Oct. 28, 2024, statements from Bishop Olson and Mother Marie of the Incarnation, whom a Vatican office appointed as the community's major superior in April. (OSV News photo/courtesy Matthew Bobo and Bob Roller)

Nuns in Arlington, Texas, dismissed from Carmelite order, religious life

Maria Wiering|Oct 29, 2024|6 Min Read

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Texas Catholic groups struggle to provide aid after Beryl cuts power to millions

James Ramos|Jul 10, 2024|7 Min Read

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