This day was selected to talk about indigenous issues because it is the day Tlatelolco fell to the Spanish in 1521. They will present a PBS movie and have a discussion. All are invited. Free and open to the public
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Dia de Cuauhtemoc
A special presentation by the Texas Indigenous Council on August 13 at 6pm-9pm in the MACC Community Center. 
This day was selected to talk about indigenous issues because it is the day Tlatelolco fell to the Spanish in 1521. They will present a PBS movie and have a discussion. All are invited. Free and open to the public
This day was selected to talk about indigenous issues because it is the day Tlatelolco fell to the Spanish in 1521. They will present a PBS movie and have a discussion. All are invited. Free and open to the public
Retreat for Young People, Saturday August 15
Are you a young person between the ages of 14 and 16 years of age? Planning a Quince Años celebration or a Sweet 16? Come join us for a retreat August 15 here at MACC! Invite your friends and your parents! Thanks to the Congregation of Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word – Pierre Fund the day long retreat will only cost $5 (with a scholarship application)!
Registration Form / Fomulario de Inscripción
Scholarship Form / Solicitud de Beca
Registration Form / Fomulario de Inscripción
Scholarship Form / Solicitud de Beca
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A Pastoral Music Workshop: ¡Cantemos con Alegría!
Los Inocentes invite you to a bilingual music workshop August 19 and 26, 2009, 7pm-9pm at MACC!
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This workshop will include: General overview of the liturgical year, hymns of the the liturgical seasons and religious cultural celebrations (Día de Los Muertos, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and Las Posadas)
Registration $30 for the 2-day workshop (discounts for groups of three or more from a parish).
For more information call (210)223-6910 or email losinocentesmail@yahoo.com
Monday, July 13, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
MACC's Academic Catalog is online!
After much anticipation our catalog is now online! Click here in order to see the Academic Catalog of our new college!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Two New Assignments!
MACC would like to welcome Dr. David Delaney as its new Academic Dean! Dr. Delaney returns to San Antonio after serving as Associate Director of the Institute of Catholic Thought in Illinois. Dr. Delaney holds a PhD. in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America and will be a great asset to the MACC community.
MACC staff member Martín de Jesús Martínez was named the Director of Continuing Education for Ministry. This new position was created to work alongside the College to oversee the programs presently in place that are not "for credit".
Congratulations on behalf of MACC staff and supporters
MACC staff member Martín de Jesús Martínez was named the Director of Continuing Education for Ministry. This new position was created to work alongside the College to oversee the programs presently in place that are not "for credit".
Congratulations on behalf of MACC staff and supporters
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Abortion Recovery Ministry to Spanish Speakers
A Seminar at MACC on the Impact of Abortion: Clinical and Pastoral Understanding and Care. August 20, 2009, 8:30am-4:30pm
Early Bird deadline has moved to August 3!
Regular Registration deadline is August 9.
Sponsored by Project Rachel San Antonio.
For bilingual clergy, mental health and medical professionals, and pastoral workers (chaplains, grief and hospice ministers, substance abuse counselors, campus ministers, spiritual directors, youth ministers, and retreat facilitators).
Este seminario es para clerigos, ministros y profesionistas bilingues.
Click to Download Brochure
En español
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Early Bird deadline has moved to August 3!
Regular Registration deadline is August 9.
Sponsored by Project Rachel San Antonio.
For bilingual clergy, mental health and medical professionals, and pastoral workers (chaplains, grief and hospice ministers, substance abuse counselors, campus ministers, spiritual directors, youth ministers, and retreat facilitators).
Este seminario es para clerigos, ministros y profesionistas bilingues.
Click to Download Brochure
En español
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Words from our President
By Arturo Chávez - Special to the Express-News
As Catholic bishops gather in San Antonio next week, the leaders of our nation's largest church are poised to play a major role in making sure comprehensive immigration reform stays high on the list of President Barack Obama's crowded policy agenda.
The bishops offer practical policy solutions and compelling moral arguments for bringing the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. out of the shadows. Bishops have lobbied Congress to fix our broken immigration system and denounce the rising tide of dehumanizing rhetoric that demonizes immigrants as “aliens.”
Last week, bishops from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America jointly called on their governments to hash out a regional plan to grapple with the complexities of migration. Faith leaders attended a prayer vigil outside the White House this week to underscore the urgency of reform as Obama held a highly anticipated meeting with key members of Congress about immigration.
The Catholic Church and our nation have always been renewed by the vitality of new immigrants. By 2020 the majority of American Catholics will be Latino. While one out of three Catholics has left the church, Latino immigrants are filling those empty pews. Obama recently gave an important nod to the multicultural future of Catholicism by naming Miguel Diaz, a Cuban American theologian, as the first Latino nominated U.S ambassador to the Holy See. As Irish and Italians once gave life to the Catholic Church in America, the next generation of Catholics will reflect the hues and accents of the church's latest immigrant waves from Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia.
The Catholic vision for a humane immigration reform system is not only rooted in appeals to justice and morality. Practical arguments are also critical. Over the last two decades, the federal government has poured some $10 billion into beefing up security along the U.S.-Mexican border. Migrants have responded by finding new and more dangerous routes into the U.S. There is no wall high enough to deter the dreams of those seeking a better life.
Stopping migration's socioeconomic engine requires more than tough talk from finger-wagging politicians or the cowboy antics of local sheriffs. It requires a systematic response that rejects false choices. We can protect our borders and uphold human dignity.
Comprehensive immigration reform would include an earned path to citizenship, appropriate worker protections and policies that keep families from being torn apart. This is not amnesty or a handout. It's a sensible solution to a system where employers and U.S consumers benefit from the labor of undocumented workers even as immigrants themselves have no protection from exploitation.
The failure of Congress to pass reform legislation has forced states to enact a hodgepodge of punitive local ordinances. The National Council of La Raza and the Urban Institute report that two-thirds of children split up from their parents during immigration raids are U.S. citizens. This is shameful.
Every day at the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, I'm honored to serve hard-working, young Latinos learning English, honing skills to compete in the workplace and sacrificing as immigrants before them have done for generations. Our nation is stronger for their presence.
If we hope to move beyond simplistic solutions and the hateful rhetoric that define our polarized immigration debate, we need deeper conversations and bold political leadership. Bishops, your voices and advocacy on this critical issue are needed now more than ever before.
Arturo Chávez is president and CEO of the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio and a member of the advisory council to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
As Catholic bishops gather in San Antonio next week, the leaders of our nation's largest church are poised to play a major role in making sure comprehensive immigration reform stays high on the list of President Barack Obama's crowded policy agenda.
The bishops offer practical policy solutions and compelling moral arguments for bringing the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. out of the shadows. Bishops have lobbied Congress to fix our broken immigration system and denounce the rising tide of dehumanizing rhetoric that demonizes immigrants as “aliens.”
Last week, bishops from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America jointly called on their governments to hash out a regional plan to grapple with the complexities of migration. Faith leaders attended a prayer vigil outside the White House this week to underscore the urgency of reform as Obama held a highly anticipated meeting with key members of Congress about immigration.
The Catholic Church and our nation have always been renewed by the vitality of new immigrants. By 2020 the majority of American Catholics will be Latino. While one out of three Catholics has left the church, Latino immigrants are filling those empty pews. Obama recently gave an important nod to the multicultural future of Catholicism by naming Miguel Diaz, a Cuban American theologian, as the first Latino nominated U.S ambassador to the Holy See. As Irish and Italians once gave life to the Catholic Church in America, the next generation of Catholics will reflect the hues and accents of the church's latest immigrant waves from Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia.
The Catholic vision for a humane immigration reform system is not only rooted in appeals to justice and morality. Practical arguments are also critical. Over the last two decades, the federal government has poured some $10 billion into beefing up security along the U.S.-Mexican border. Migrants have responded by finding new and more dangerous routes into the U.S. There is no wall high enough to deter the dreams of those seeking a better life.
Stopping migration's socioeconomic engine requires more than tough talk from finger-wagging politicians or the cowboy antics of local sheriffs. It requires a systematic response that rejects false choices. We can protect our borders and uphold human dignity.
Comprehensive immigration reform would include an earned path to citizenship, appropriate worker protections and policies that keep families from being torn apart. This is not amnesty or a handout. It's a sensible solution to a system where employers and U.S consumers benefit from the labor of undocumented workers even as immigrants themselves have no protection from exploitation.
The failure of Congress to pass reform legislation has forced states to enact a hodgepodge of punitive local ordinances. The National Council of La Raza and the Urban Institute report that two-thirds of children split up from their parents during immigration raids are U.S. citizens. This is shameful.
Every day at the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, I'm honored to serve hard-working, young Latinos learning English, honing skills to compete in the workplace and sacrificing as immigrants before them have done for generations. Our nation is stronger for their presence.
If we hope to move beyond simplistic solutions and the hateful rhetoric that define our polarized immigration debate, we need deeper conversations and bold political leadership. Bishops, your voices and advocacy on this critical issue are needed now more than ever before.
Arturo Chávez is president and CEO of the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio and a member of the advisory council to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Friday, June 12, 2009
MACC sign agreement with the University of the Incarnate Word
The University of the Incarnate Word and the Mexican American Catholic College signed an inter-institutional agreement to work together in offering a biliterate Bachelors of Arts Degree in Pastoral Ministry.
The two Catholic institutions of higher education have collaborated for more than thirty years in delivering quality education in the area of Hispanic Ministry. Now, as Hispanics become the majority of Catholics in the U.S., they will provide students with a unique program that prepares them to be leaders in the multicultural Church and society of the 21st century with the bilingual and cultural competency skills that build unity in diversity.
“This will be a creative solution for some of the obstacles that Hispanics, including seminarians, permanent deacons, religious and lay faithful, encounter in pursuing higher Theological education,” commented Archbishop José Gomez who joined trustees and faculty from both institutions at the historic signing ceremony.
Dr. Louis Agnese Jr., President of UIW, and Dr. Arturo Chavez, President of MACC, signed a five-year agreement that will primarily help the new Catholic College attain accreditation in higher education. The University has generously agreed to provide a kind of “safety net” for students as MACC attains academic autonomy by providing institutional support to MACC’s administration and educational resources to its students.
Undergraduate students enrolling in the Bachelor of Arts Degree Program at MACC can simultaneously enroll for courses offered at UIW for a reduced tuition rate and may also qualify for financial aid when enrolled for a minimum of 6 hours at UIW.
“Seeking full accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is a big step for MACC. UIW can offer students general education requirements in areas like biology, chemistry, mathematics, physical education and wellness—programs requiring unique facilities and faculty preparation. More importantly, UIW and MACC share a mission to empower students by providing access to higher education. We are happy to be partners in the extension of this mission,” said UIW Chancellor Sister Helena Monahan.
UIW and MACC share many common mission elements, including a commitment to develop leaders in a culturally diverse world, and to engender a spirit of Christian service and social justice in their students and faculty.
The two institutions have collaborated for more than thirty years in delivering quality education in the area of Hispanic Ministry.
MACC donates shelves
In preparing for our new look for the MACC campus, MACCC is happy to announce that we have been able to donate some large bookshelves to the Gabriel Project! They plan to store items that are needed in their new location. MACC is happy to be able to provide these items as a support for the work they do for pregnant women, their babies, and for families.
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