Fitting for a faith that believes confessing one’s sins cleanses the soul, Catholic dioceses ... 2017 of suffocating McAllen schoolteacher Irene Garza to death after she was last seen on her way to ...

Sister Norma Pimentel is executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, Texas. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report File Photo) Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of ...

The bishop heaped praise on Pimentel’s advocacy around migration issues and her leadership of the respite center in McAllen, Texas ... the things of the church’s Catholic social teaching ...

Perez and her siblings grew up in the Catholic Church, like an overwhelming majority of residents in 1960 McAllen, just miles from the Texas/Mexico border. While talk of the priest’s possible role in ...