CHICAGO — Chicago-based Catholic Extension launched the first of many initiatives it has planned over the next 18 months to support Uvalde, Texas, following the devastation of the Robb Elementary mass shooting.
ROME — The global network of women religious fighting human trafficking was offering a virtual tour of its work helping survivors as a way to mark the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.
At the recommendation of the Archdiocesan Review Board, the following priest has been added to the list of priests with substantiated allegations of abuse of a minor.
Since mid-September 2021, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has helped more than 1,800 Afghan refugees that arrived in Oklahoma. It can take many years to properly resettle a refugee into a new country and establish self-sustainability.
World Youth Day is one year away and coordinators are busy organizing the event and inviting youth to participate in the international gathering. It will take place July 27 – Aug. 8, 2023, in Rome and Lisbon, and it is estimated that more than one million Catholic youth will attend.
On Aug. 13, everyone is invited to Diamondback Harley Davidson in Lawton at 9:30 a.m. for the annual Knights of Columbus Knights on Bikes Love Run benefiting The Center of Family Love in Okarche.
Priest, pastor, historian, story-teller par excellence and Oklahoma treasure are just of the few of the descriptions one could use for the recently-deceased Father James White.
NEW YORK CITY - The Sisters of Life, a religious congregation with a special fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life, is pleased to announce that seven sisters professed their first vows as Sisters of Life on June 25, the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Suffern, N.Y. Bishop Salvatore Matano of the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y., was the principal celebrant and homilist. Mother Agnes, Mother Superior of the Sisters of Life, received the sisters into the community at the Mass.
Brother Kevin (Eugene) McGuire, O.S.B., monk of St. Gregory’s Abbey, died July 7 in Shawnee. He was 83. Brother Kevin was born on May 17, 1939, in Oklahoma City to Paul and Doris (Ayotte) McGuire. He was baptized the next day and raised in the parish of The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help along with his two brothers and one sister.
Deacon Byron Ray Jacobson, Sr. died July 19. He was a beloved husband, father and grandfather. He was born on Aug. 30, 1955, in Port Hueneme, Calif., to his loving parents, Russell Eugene Jacobson and Vivian Jane (Chase) Jacobson.
This book, “The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico,” is a collection of articles in honor of Father Francisco Morales Valerio, O.F.M., a leading historian of the Franciscan order in Mexico.
I recently shared lunch with some friends. Each of us are amid some transitions in our lives. Times of change can be uncomfortable and even anxiety ridden.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Cardinal Community House (CCH) is pleased to announce the launch of a nonmedical respite shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness who have recently been discharged from hospitalization.
STE.-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRÉ, Quebec — In the face of sin and failure, the temptation to wallow in despair and do nothing comes from the devil, Pope Francis said.