God of all Goodness, you have entrusted us with the gift of life. Help us to appreciate that gift from the first moments of conception to the last breaths of old age. Send your strength to all those who defend the unborn, the weak and the dying against attempts to cut short their lives. May your Holy Spirit touch the hearts of those who are tempted to choose the way of death rather than life. Grant that your people may always be a sign of Your love in the world. Amen
Saint Eugene Catholic Church in Oklahoma City honored military veterans Jan. 6 and offered each a chance to give back to their community by helping a non-profit group.
Father Larry Richards entered into published writing with his 2009 book, “Be a Man! Becoming the Man God Created You to Be.” Richards’s message, ongoing still, comes to Norman for the 23rd annual “In the Father’s Footsteps” Oklahoma Catholic Men’s Conference.
LAWTON – Saint Mary Catholic School has been awarded a grant from The Westerman Foundation in the amount of $10,000. The funds, along with a donation of 25 desktop computers from City National Bank of Lawton, will be used for an upgrade of technology and networking capabilities for the school.
by Pedro A. Moreno, O.P. Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis
Catholic Bibles are bigger because this is the will of God and the Church has reaffirmed this throughout the centuries. Some might ask, “What guided the magisterium toward this conclusion?” “What is the background to this decision?” In this column, my goal is to share some basic responses to these questions.
by Anamaria Scaperlanda Biddick, for the Sooner Catholic
A few weeks ago, I read a novel with an interesting premise: a woman wakes up from a head injury thinking she is 29 years old, completely in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. She is shy, preferring the close friendships she developed early in life: with her sister and her close friend from elementary school. But soon, she discovers that it is 10 years later. She is on the cusp of turning 40, with three children. The biggest surprise: she and her adored husband are in the midst of a messy divorce.
Most books that describe someone’s conversion to the Catholic Church focus solely on the events that led the author to the faith and to the Church. Brandon’s Vogt’s “Why I Am a Catholic” goes beyond this. Subtitled “And You Should Be Too,” the book is directed at those outside the Church and argues, in a most convincing way, that they should be Catholic.
by Pedro A. Moreno, O.P. Secretariado de Evangelización y Catequesis
Las Biblias católicas son más grandes porque esta es la voluntad de Dios y la Iglesia lo ha reafirmado a lo largo de los siglos. Algunos podrían preguntar: “¿Qué guio al magisterio hacia esta conclusión?” “¿Cuál es el trasfondo de esta decisión?” En esta columna, mi objetivo es compartir algunas respuestas básicas a estas preguntas.
WASHINGTON – Vinieron de cerca y de lejos, e incluso de Australia, y se unieron en oración y unidos para defender la vida de otros en la reunión anual para jóvenes de la Arquidiócesis de Washington, celebrada el 18 de enero en la Arena Capital One de Washington.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has created a set of pastoral guidelines to inspire and improve the church's work in addressing the crime of human trafficking and the care of its victims worldwide.
Los lectores que escudriñan ocasionalmente mi calendario público en el sitio web Sooner Catholic o en la arquidiócesis, pueden atestiguar que paso mucho tiempo visitando nuestras Escuelas Católicas.
As readers who occasionally scan my public calendar in the Sooner Catholic or on the archdiocesan website can attest, I spend a lot of time visiting our Catholic schools.