Christ the King Catholic Church

I’m new to Dallas, practicing Catholic and was looking for a church to attend every week. I attended the 8am and I really loved it. The 8am, however, doesn’t play music, but I loved the messages and everyone was very welcoming. I will be attending regularly.

My name is Tersesa. I went to this school for 9 years of my life. I love the back and forth because people are so passionate about religion! I was originally Presbyterian, then when my older sister died we became Catholic. I was 7 years old when I was baptized. I hate hearing people talk down about CKS! Its the place I know. I am a Christian. It doesn’t ever need a home. God lives inside you! Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or Jew… As long as you believe in him, he is there!!!
Don’t be a bad Christian, by being negative on here. Love God, in any form he may take.
Love thy Lord, and you shall be.
BTW, CKS does have the best sound for music.
Love Christ!

I won’t speak to their theology. That’s not for Unilocal (in my opinion)
But I can say that Christ the King Catholic has some of the best choral classical music in the metroplex! Their special services during lent/​advent/​easter are always top notch. If you want to hear great choral music — go here.
Their organ needs some work, but I hear that they’re getting a new one soon.

I recently had the pleasure of witnessing my brother and sister-​in-​law marry at Christ The King. The church is GORGEOUS and the music sounds tremendous in there. Monsignor Zimmerman did an outstanding job with mentoring and guiding them, for which I am very grateful, and gave a touching, meaningful, and personal homily during the wedding. As for a previous reviewer’s opinion about no one ever wanting to go, each time I was there the church was packed and ran out of seating with literally groups of people standing in back the entire mass, so I’m not sure on what basis that is correct. Plus, I loved Art History class, so maybe the previous reviewer and I wouldn’t see eye to eye anyway. As Joe said, maybe the Catholic church isn’t right for you if the traditions and teachings rub you the wrong way, but as for me, I welcome the Church’s teachings as a crucial guide on this journey we call life and find sacramental value far more useful in deepening my relationship with God than entertainment value. I would definitely go here regularly if I lived in Dallas.

Before writing this review, let me state that I’m a life-​long, born-​and-​raised Catholic. I’m a 28 year old guy that explicitly is Catholic and wants a traditional church that is not too small, not to big, and is a great place to worship. I don’t want a show, I don’t want some big, impressive «feel-​good» service that gives you warm fuzzies. See– to me, church isn’t entertainment. I want to go to an actual MASS.
I looked at multiple Catholic churches in the DFW area before settling on this one. I really like Christ the King. It’s everything I look for in a church.
Clergy: Monsignor Zimmerman is a «straight to the point» kind of guy. I really like this. I particularly like seeing Monsignor Zimmerman do the mass, as he’s very good at explaining stuff and gives homilies that I find are excellent explanations of scripture. However, a lot of priests in training do mass on Saturday night. I generally go to that one, as it’s a bit more convenient for me. They do a good job also, but Monsignor Zimmerman is my favorite. Also, around our wedding, we got into some tricky family situations with our family, and Monsignor Zimmerman provided great help and insight in how to work through the issues that we ran into.
Music: The music here is phenomenal for a church. On Sunday morning, I feel that the choir is pretty much on par with professional choral groups. For our wedding, we splurged and got the trumpet player added to our package. The trumpet in here sounds AWESOME. No regrets on doing that, for folks getting married here soon…
Church: The Church is beautiful. The stained glass windows may be my favorite part of the church. 100% amazing. My wife isn’t Catholic and loves how the Church looks.
I’m pretty sure that Christ the King offers some young adult networking type opportunities, but I haven’t partaken yet. I probably should.
Also, just to cover all of my bases… Counter to other Unilocal reviewers, I find that Christ the King provides a «very uplifting experience» every time I go here. However, that may actually be because I’m actually a practicing Catholic.
If that makes me a crazy Catholic with a guilt complex, so be it. (If you do feel that way, you probably don’t really understand and/​or practice the dogma and traditions of the Catholic religion. Nothing personal against you, but don’t judge Catholics for being Catholic.)

Will I go to Hell if I don’t give this church 5 stars? According to Christ the King, I will. Because they have a very strict viewpoint on all things Hell and sinful! Bah! I’m just 22– can’t a girl have some fun?
I went to Christ the King for CCD, was confirmed there, taught Vacation Bible School for several summers and after all these years of experience, I have concluded one thing!
To me, Christ the King = freshman year Art History Class. It’s boring, too long, no one wants to go, and it puts me to sleep. But I’m not the only one. The last time I went to church here in October, I looked around and nearly half the lay people (this is the term I was taught to call them) were nodding off. The homilies are chock-​ful of ancient theological theories that are impossible to pay attention to/​learn from.
Sorry, church.
IF you are Catholic and want a more up-​lifting experience, the Perkins Chapel at SMU has a really nice 5 pm service on Sundays with pretty music and a great priest. =)