• Received and handed on to you
    April 23, 2020
    by Pedro A. Moreno, O.P.
    St. Paul on the Eucharist
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  • Book Review: “Grace from the Rubble”
    Book Review: “Grace from the Rubble”
    April 23, 2020
    by John H. Dolezal
    April 19 marked the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, the worst act of homegrown terrorism in our nation’s history.
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  • Making Sense of Bioethics: Thinking through the rationing of ventilators
    April 23, 2020
    by Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
    When ventilators are in short supply, several key ethical principles can assist clinicians:
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  • ¿A dónde vamos desde aquí?
    April 21, 2020
    by Arzobispo Pablo S. Coakley
    Durante más de seis semanas nos hemos estado adaptando a un paisaje rápidamente cambiante provocado por la propagación de COVID-19.
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  • Where do we go from here?
    April 21, 2020
    by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
    For more than six weeks we have been adjusting to a rapidly shifting landscape brought about by the spread of COVID-19.
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  • Declaración del arzobispo Coakley en el vigesimoquinto aniversario
    April 16, 2020
    Hoy, en el vigesimoquinto aniversario del ataque terrorista al Edificio Federal Alfred P. Murrah en Oklahoma City, recordamos las 168 vidas inocentes que fueron tomadas, incluyendo 19 niños. También recordamos a tres niños no nacidos que perecieron ese día.
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  • Statement from Archbishop Paul Coakley on the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing
    April 16, 2020
    Today, on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, we remember the 168 innocent lives taken, including 19 children. We also remember three unborn children who perished that day. These were our family members, our friends, co-workers and neighbors. We are grateful for their lives and we will never forget their sacrifice.
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  • Retired pope, celebrating 93rd birthday, is well, secretary says
    Retired pope, celebrating 93rd birthday, is well, secretary says
    April 16, 2020
    by Catholic News Service
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Retired Pope Benedict XVI "is well," although the coronavirus pandemic restrictions mean he will receive no visitors April 16, his 93rd birthday.
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  • Pope creates coronavirus commission to respond to pandemic
    Pope creates coronavirus commission to respond to pandemic
    April 16, 2020
    by Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis created a new commission that will confront the challenges the world is facing in battling the coronavirus pandemic and what it will inevitably face in its aftermath, the Vatican announced.
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  • Archdiocese of Turin to live-stream display Shroud of Turin on Holy Saturday
    Archdiocese of Turin to live-stream display Shroud of Turin on Holy Saturday
    April 9, 2020
    by Catholic News Service
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With people forced to stay home, even during Holy Week, because of the coronavirus pandemic, the archbishop of Turin has announced a special online exposition of the Shroud of Turin, which many believe is the burial cloth of Jesus.
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  • La Larga Cuaresma de 2020
    April 9, 2020
    by Arzobispo Pablo S. Coakley
    “Algo extraño está sucediendo: hay un gran silencio en la tierra hoy, un gran silencio y quietud. Toda la tierra guarda silencio porque el Rey está dormido.”
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  • The long Lent of 2020
    April 9, 2020
    by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
    “Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.”
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  • Arzobispo suspende Misas públicas "hasta nuevo aviso"
    April 9, 2020
    Sigo orando por ti y por todos los fieles mientras trabajamos para adaptarnos a nuestra nueva normalidad durante las próximas semanas.
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  • Juanito se encuentra con Jesús resucitado
    April 9, 2020
    by Pedro A. Moreno, O.P.
    Era una hermosa mañana de Domingo de Pascua en la Ciudad de Oklahoma. El sol había salido y la temperatura de la mañana ya era de 70 grados. Sin duda, sería más cálido para cuando salieran de la Misa en español de las 1:15 p.m. en Santiago Apóstol.
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  • Archbishop suspends public Masses "until further notice"
    April 9, 2020
    I continue to pray for you and for all of the faithful as we work to adjust to our new normal for the next few weeks.
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  • “In the risen Jesus, life conquered death”
    “In the risen Jesus, life conquered death”
    April 9, 2020
    VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis sent a video message to Catholics around the world, urging them amid the global coronavirus pandemic to hope, solidarity with those who suffer, and to prayer.
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  • Confessions on the front porch
    Confessions on the front porch
    April 9, 2020
    by K.S. McNutt, the Sooner Catholic
    When the spread of coronavirus cancelled large gatherings across the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, parishioners and staff turned to Facebook, YouTube and Zoom to share worship services with parishioners and conduct meetings with co-workers.
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  • How has the quarantine effected how you celebrate your faith?
    April 9, 2020
    by Sally Linhart, the Sooner Catholic
    With shelter-in-place orders in several Oklahoma cities and a safer-in-place order for the state, public Masses are suspended until further notice. The Sooner Catholic asks parishioners across the archdiocese, how the circumstances have changed or enhanced how they celebrate their Catholic faith.
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  • Meet the Seminarians: Stephen Jones
    Meet the Seminarians: Stephen Jones
    April 9, 2020
    This is part of a series to introduce the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
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  • Giving back to the world
    Giving back to the world
    April 9, 2020
    by By Rev. Joseph Uhen
    Fr. Hesburgh, the president of Notre Dame, made a vital statement to the graduating class of 1980, “Twenty percent of the people in the world enjoy eighty percent of the world’s resources, while eighty percent of the world’s population only enjoy twenty percent of the world’s resources.”
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