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WASHINGTON (CNS) — Hundreds of boarding schools supported by the U.S. government for 150 years sought to forcefully assimilate Native American and Indigenous children into white society, a first-of-its-kind report from the Interior Department said.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CNS) — When Carmelite Father Michael Driscoll was a young man 50 years ago, he started reading and collecting articles about Father Titus Brandsma, one of Netherlands’ leading churchmen.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Among the 10 men and women Pope Francis will proclaim as the Catholic Church’s newest saints is a Dutch priest and journalist who stood his ground against Nazi ideology and paid for it with his life.

ROME (CNS) — Having a member over 100 years old is not unusual today for orders of Catholic women religious, but many orders do not have the specialized knowledge or resources to ensure an accurate diagnosis and the best possible plan of care for sisters experiencing dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, several sisters said.

-- Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of Oklahoma City

Shrine to accommodate growing parishes with 2,000-seat church

Mother’s Day May 8

For Priest Appreciation Week, the Sooner Catholic asked parishioners to share what their priests mean to them and their families. Here is what they said:

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City released statistics on an AI-based texting platform that provides immediate access to mental health support through a chatbot named “Hope.”

The northeastern Oklahoma town of Vinita had a Catholic presence as early as 1867 due to railroad workers building the Katy (the north-south line) and the Frisco (east -west), and were attended by Jesuits from Missouri. A more solid foundation was attained with the arrival of Father William Ketchem who was based out of Muskogee, but whose parish was basically a quarter of the state.

Each of the 56 seniors at Cristo Rey OKC Catholic High School has been accepted to at least one college or university this fall. 

Many people may think that Saint Joseph would have a special place in art from the beginning of Christian art. They would be wrong. It was a gradual progression from almost obscurity to his prominence in art of recent times.

After David Warren’s passing in 2018, his family quickly agreed that a wonderful way to honor his memory would be to create an endowment benefiting Sacred Heart Catholic School in El Reno.

ST. MARY’S CITY, Md. (CNS) — While English colonists who arrived in the New World were looking for greater opportunities, many of the Catholic colonists who arrived in Maryland also were looking to escape religious persecution.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic leaders were thankful that death-row inmate Melissa Lucio was granted a last-minute stay of execution April 25, but they also said her sentence shows a failure in the use of capital punishment in this country and stressed that they would continue to pray for Lucio and her family and advocate on her behalf.

Assignments are effective Tuesday, June 28, 2022, unless otherwise noted.

In November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called for a National Eucharistic Revival in every U.S. diocese to renew the Church by rekindling a living relationship with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.