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Archbishop Coakley on Sept. 6 officially signed the contract with The Boldt Company of Oklahoma City to build the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine. The signing comes two months before the groundbreaking ceremony, which will be Sunday, Nov. 3.

Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Oklahoma City hosted Saint Peter Claver Day on Sept. 8. Every year, on the weekend closest to Sept. 9 – the feast day of Saint Peter Claver, patron of the missions to African people and human rights defender – Corpus Christi hosts the Knights of Peter Claver and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Peter Claver from the other Oklahoma parishes.

One of the world’s most prestigious and competitive fellowship program awards has been given to Mount Saint Mary Catholic High School’s social studies teacher, Johnathan Baldridge. The competitive Fulbright-Hays study abroad award offers significant professional learning opportunities.

In the city of Gulu in northern Uganda, across the street from a prison, sits an enclosed compound that hundreds of women and children call home. Saint Monica’s Girls Tailoring Centre, also known as Sister Rosemary’s compound, houses a medical center, daycare, school and convent.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – More than 700 students from the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City joined thousands of other young Catholics this summer at the 2019 Steubenville STL Mid-America youth conference.

The history of the Church in Oklahoma is jammed packed with interesting characters and even a few that invite puzzlement and head scratching. Others became known for accomplishments that had little to do with their priestly ministry. Such is the case with Boniface Mandelaartz.

The 27 books of the New Testament aren’t really all books. Twenty-one of the 27 in the New Testament are letters with Saint Paul writing more than half of the letters.

According to the Pew Research Center, “Latinos now make up one-third of the Catholic population.” This significant growth brings both new challenges and opportunities for the Latino population as well as for the Catholic community.

Los 27 libros del Nuevo Testamento no son realmente todos libros. Veintiuno de los 27 en el Nuevo Testamento son cartas con San Pablo escribiendo más de la mitad de ellas.