On Friday, Feb. 22, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for Pope Benedict XVI. Earlier in the month, Pope Benedict announced that he would resign his papacy on Feb. 28.
On Sunday, March 3, the Pontifical North American College installed 62 seminarians to the ministry of acolyte during a celebration of the Eucharist at the school’s chapel. Eric Chapa a seminarian with the Diocese of Corpus Christi and a second year student of theological studies was among those seminarians instituted.