Low attendance and costly upkeep of the 94-year-old "beautiful but aging building” at 38 N. Austin Blvd. were cited as reasons to close the church.

Saint Luke Catholic Church hosted Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Archdiocese of Austin to be celebrated by central Texans as he gets ready to move to serve a new area.

Despite St. Joseph’s lack of direct affiliation with Chesterton Academy, the new high school will be located on their campus temporarily.

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. “It’s a beautiful spiritual exercise to ask where am I on my spiritual journey towards God. That’s it,” said Father Denzil Vinthanage, the priest at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.

Since Vatican II ended in 1965, the Catholic Church has seen a massive decline in the United States. Why are people leaving?

For Catholics around the world, this is a special year, a “Jubilee Year,” as declared by Pope Francis. Every 25 years, the Pope declares a jubilee, when the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is flung open and the people of the church travel to Rome for special spiritual graces.

The church opposes “the ideology that usually accompanies so many sex-change decisions,” which Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said is an ideology that claims “omnipotence” and refuses to recognize the reality of one’s body as a gift.

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.