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February 23, 2023
Deacon John Dowling Pigott, Ph.D., of Norman, died on Feb. 14 at the age of 72. He was born on Feb. 2, 1951, in Gorman, Texas.
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February 23, 2023
Sister Mary Claver Young died on Feb. 14. She was born to Gerard Berchman Young and Therese Bendix Young, in New Orleans, on Jan. 17, 1924.
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February 23, 2023
by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B., the Sooner Catholic
Father John Burns, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and author of several books, offers retreats, conferences and parish missions. Josiah Henley is a Catholic illustrator and designer from Portland, Ore. This book, “Return: a guided Lent journal for prayer and meditation,“ has prayers, meditations and reflections based on the readings at that day's Mass and space for journaling.
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February 10, 2023
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February 9, 2023
A list of Oklahoma City metro-area parish Lenten Penance Rites
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February 9, 2023
by Arzobispo Pablo S. Coakley
La historia de la Iglesia Católica en Oklahoma es fascinante y continúa desarrollándose en nuestros días. Fue un intrépido grupo de monjes misioneros Benedictinos los que llegaron a Oklahoma en 1875 y establecieron la primera misión católica en territorios indios.
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February 9, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
The history of the Catholic Church in Oklahoma is a fascinating and still unfolding story. It was an intrepid band of Benedictine missionary monks who arrived in 1875 and established the first permanent Catholic settlement in Indian Territory.
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February 9, 2023
La dedicación del Santuario Beato Stanley Rother es a las 11 a. m. el 17 de febrero en 700 SE 89 St. en la ciudad de Oklahoma.
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February 9, 2023
by George Rigazzi, archdiocesan archivist
It was inevitable. The Diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa had become unwieldy in its size and a more reasonable arrangement became a necessity. Since the erection of the Diocese of Oklahoma in 1905, two years before statehood, and the subsequent name change in 1930 to the Diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, the entire state was under the care of one bishop.
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February 9, 2023
The dedication of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine is at 11 a.m. Feb. 17 at 700 SE 89 St. in Oklahoma City.
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February 9, 2023
by John Helsley
Ray Haefele and his wife Irene tuned into a Catholic conference, via Zoom, and found themselves engaged with the speaker: Sister Mary Michael Fox, a nun serving in Nashville.
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February 9, 2023
by George Rigazzi, archdiocesan archivist
With an innate kindness and gentleness of spirit, Sister Martha Mary McGaw, C.S.J., was a fixture in the archdiocese as the associate editor of the “Sooner Catholic” from 1978 to 1995.
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February 9, 2023
by Jad Ziolkowska, the Sooner Catholic
On Jan. 28, thirty-six participants from across Oklahoma attended the Day of Reflection: “The Gift of the Eucharist,” at Saint Gregory’s Abbey in Shawnee.
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February 9, 2023
by Jolene Schonchin, the Sooner Catholic
On Jan. 21, Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Del City celebrated the feast day of their namesake and patron saint with their parish and invited visitors.
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February 9, 2023
by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B., the Sooner Catholic
Doctor Robert Wise is the author of more than 36 books, with topics ranging from World War II to religion. Wise is an archbishop in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. He lives in Oklahoma City with his wife Margueritte. He is involved with ecumenical dialogue involving his church and the Catholic Church and has even met with Pope Francis.
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February 9, 2023
by Peter L. de Keratry, executive director of Stewardship and Development
What an amazing year! 2022 was a banner year for philanthropic support from the Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
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February 9, 2023
Sr. Miriam Schnoebelen, 93, a Benedictine sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kan., died Jan. 19 at the monastery.
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February 9, 2023
by George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
On Tuesday, Jan. 3, when Cardinal George Pell and I went to pay our respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, lying in state in St. Peter’s, I couldn’t help but notice the reverence with which the basilica’s little people, the Sanpietrini, greeted the tall Australian who walked slowly with a cane. These ushers and guards are used to ecclesiastical eminence, but there was something different about their evident respect and affection for Cardinal Pell. Here was a man who had suffered greatly for the Church and the truth. Here was a “white martyr.” Attention should be paid. And it was.
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February 6, 2023
The following assignments are effective Tuesday, March 9, 2023
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