2025 is a year of anniversaries in the Church: We shouldn’t overlook the murder of Irene Garza

2025 is a year of anniversaries in the Church: We shouldn’t overlook the murder of Irene Garza

This year is a big one for anniversaries in the Church, with the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul II this week, and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea starting next month. The Year of Our Lord, 2025, is also the sixty-fifth anniversary of Irene Garza’s murder by the hands of  a Catholic priest in McAllen, Texas. On Saturday, 16 April 1960, Garza – a 25-year-old elementary schoolteacher who lived with her parents …