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DEDICATING MAY TO THE BLESSED MOTHER THROUGH THE ROSARY
As Catholics turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary in May, learn again how to pray the Rosary and pray for mothers of all kinds. ▪ SEE PAGES 4 & 5
Proclaiming the Good News to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston since 1964
MAY 9, 2023
VOL. 60, NO. 1
CELEBRATING 175 YEARS OF FAITH
Landmark gala marks Archdiocese’s 175th anniversary Cardinal DiNardo thanks 1,100 attending ‘intimate’ dinner BY JO ANN ZUÑIGA Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — As Daniel Cardinal DiNardo welcomed the crowd attending the Archdiocese’s 175th anniversary gala in the ballroom of the Hilton AmericasHouston on April 20, he joked, “There’s nothing like having an intimate dinner with 1,100 of your closest friends.” Bill Balleza, retired news anchor of KPRC Channel 2, serving as the master of ceremonies, began the evening, welcoming a trilingual invocation delivered first in English by Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS; then Father Thu Ngoc Nguyen in Vietnamese and Father Miguel Solorzano in Spanish. They prayed, “As You have blessed us over these last 175 years, O Lord, we seek Your blessings on the days that lay ahead.”The invocation was followed by a performance by the Schola of St. Mary’s See ANNIVERSARY, page 7
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MEETING THE MAN OF THE SHROUD
Human potential expands exponentially when people work together, pope says
Faith unfolds as new Shroud of Turin exhibit reveals surprises
BUDAPEST (CNS) — Meeting leading Hungarian academics, researchers and inventors, Pope Francis said humility and humanity are the keys to creativity and to ensuring that technology serves people and not the other way around. The last event of Pope Francis’ visit to Hungary April 28 to 30 was a stop at the Information Technology and Bionics Department of Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest. The department brings together engineers, computer programmers, biologists, neurologists and physicians to create devices that assist people with a variety of physical limitations. With representatives of other Hungarian universities and from the “world of culture” present, the pope See HUNGARY, page 2
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BY JO ANN ZUÑIGA AND JAMES RAMOS Texas Catholic Herald HOUSTON — Entering a cavelike entrance, visitors at the National Museum of Funeral History in north Houston confront a life-size statue lying in the tomb, a replica of the man’s body image from the Shroud of Turin. Sculpted by Italian artist Luigi Enzo Mattei, the body shows some of the suffering endured but in a subdued manner. The dark, bronze-colored resin statue highlights a gaping hole in his side, in each of his wrists, his feet and other wounds. Across on a wall of the compact space, a 14-foot replica of the wellknown Shroud of Turin looms as the possible burial cloth of Jesus. The exhibit reveals a few surprises. Rather than a“crown”of thorns, a replica of what Roman soldiers created is called
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Daniel Cardinal DiNardo views a 14-foot replica of the Shroud of Turin gifted to the Archdiocese by the Archdiocese of Turin in Italy now housed at the National Museum of Funeral History in north Houston. Cardinal DiNardo dedicated the new exhibit during its grand opening last month.
a “helmet of thorns” displayed in a case. Based on the wounds indicated on the shroud, the thorns covered the head and extended into the neck. Also, in a nearby case, the expected long wooden shaft of a Roman spear. But
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the large diamond-shaped spearhead is bigger than expected and was used to violently thrust upward into the sides of the crucified rather than a slash usually See SHROUD, page 6
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