St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Norman presents “St. Thomas More Talks,” at 7 p.m. each Thursday during September in the parish hall. It is a series of adult education presentations aimed at strengthening the parish's spiritual formation.

Twenty years after the attack on our nation on Sept. 11, we continue to seek peace and pray for healing for those who suffer and grieve.

No puedo recordar cuánto tiempo llevamos viviendo con la pandemia del COVID. Parece que ha sido por mucho, mucho tiempo. Y nos ha desgastado a todos. 

I can’t remember how long we have been living with this COVID pandemic. It seems like a long, long time. And, it has taken a toll on all of us.

In the summer before the Second Vatican Council opened, Pope John XXIII met with Cardinal Léon-Joseph Suenens in the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo. “I know what my part in the Council will be,” the pope told the Belgian archbishop. “It will be to suffer.”

In his message for the 1990 World Day of Peace, Saint John Paul II warned of a “profound moral crisis of which the destruction of the environment is only one troubling aspect.”

Archbishop Coakley echoes Pope Francis’ call from the encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, to rise out of this crisis with an economy that expresses universal fraternity.

WASHINGTON - Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on International Justice and Peace, released a statement on the Holy Father’s World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. The bishops emphasized developing an ecological conscience, informed by faith, science, and reason that leads to prayer, sound judgment, and action.