In the years since the South Texas Catholic began publication on May 6, 1966, two of its staff members have gone on to become bishops. One became a nun. The newspaper has a long and storied history. The newspaper got its start because Bishop Thomas J. Drury, who was installed the year before, had always wanted a diocesan newspaper, said Msgr. William Thompson who served as Vicar General for Bishop Drury. It was one of the bishop’s first major decisions. Two Catholic newspapers were already covering the area, but neither was able to cover the entire diocese or its many activities, Msgr. Thompson said. Alan Baca had been publishing the Corpus Christi Parish Post since about 1951, but its coverage was limited to Corpus Christi and suburban parishes. The diocese at that time stretched south to Brownsville, north to Goliad and west to Laredo, so the Post’s reporting was somewhat limited in terms of news of the entire diocese.