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More than 50 years as a church organist and choir director have left David Warfield with a legacy of tuneful service and a crimp in his hands. “I’ve already had a knuckle replaced and bases of thumbs rebuilt,” the 68-year-old musician said in an interview at his Norwich home upon the announcement of his retirement from the music ministry. With music as a self-described “side job” that buttressed a career in the shipbuilding and homeland security industries, Warfield has been pulling out the stops on church organs since the late 1960s. It’s a journey that took him from the U.S. Nav...

Funeral services for prominent El Paso federal judge and community leader Philip Ray Martinez will be held Saturday. An obituary published in the El Paso Times only states that Martinez died due to natural causes. A rosary will be said at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Patrick Cathedral, 1118 N. Mesa St., with a funeral Mass celebrating Martinez’s life at 10:30 a.m. The burial will be for immediate family only. The obituary does not state where Martinez will be buried. The rosary and Mass will be invitation-only because of limited attendance requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rosary...

The financial resources of several dioceses rivaled or exceeded those available to publicly traded companies like Shake Shack and Ruth’s Chris Steak House, whose early participation in the program triggered outrage. Federal officials responded by emphasizing the money was intended for those who lacked the cushion that cash and other liquidity provide. Many corporations returned the funds. Overall, the nation's nearly 200 dioceses, where bishops and cardinals govern, and other Catholic institutions received at least $3 billion. That makes the Roman Catholic Church perhaps the biggest benefic...

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The Diocese of El Paso issued a statement on Feb. 11 announcing the statue’s return. “There was an outpouring of grief when the St. Patrick Cathedral Sacred Heart statue was vandalized last fall. Shock and sadness brought together donors from all over the country who felt compelled to pray and to give. Today, the statue is restored and making its way back to St. Patrick Cathedral,” the diocese said. The statue had been present at the cathedral since shortly after the dedication ceremony took place in 1917.  In September 2020, a vandal entered the cathedral’s sanctuary and decapitated...