After the Lord’s ascension, the apostles traveled to the ends of the known world, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. Tradition holds that Thomas traveled the furthest, introducing the Gospel to the people in present day India. He later died in that faraway land, and a magnificent Basilica was built atop his tomb. He has been revered in India since.
Mount St. Mary Catholic High School recently hosted the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum's “Journey of Hope” as part of a statewide initiative to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
It’s an early December day. A handful of men and women are gathered in a meeting room on the campus of the Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma City.
Percussion instruments begin a tempo and a tall woman with a broad smile stands before the group humming a key range.
It’s rehearsal day for the Joyful Noise Choir.
Everyone from around the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City is invited to join in as the 2025 Jubilee Year begins on Christmas Eve 2024 and ends on Jan. 6, 2026.
On a cool October morning, 50 Mount St. Mary Catholic High School first-year theology students stepped off their school bus into an open field. In the distance, the smell of a warm burning campfire welcomed them.
More than 200 friends, family members, priests, deacons and the faithful filled The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help on June 1 to witness the transitional diaconate ordination of John Grim and Jonah Beckham. God willing, they will be ordained to the priesthood in 2025.
Kasey Holt held her newborn son Levi close in the moments after childbirth, husband Avery by her side, in a Saint Anthony Hospital room filled with joy.
Each second Sunday of Easter, April 7 this year, the Catholic Church worldwide celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II on April 22, 2020.
As a college student, one young man spent about as much time working as he did attending classes. His experience drove his decision to create a scholarship endowment at the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma.
Nationally recognized concert organist Todd Wilson will perform an organ concert at 6 p.m. on April 7 at Christ the King Catholic Church, 8005 Dorset Drive in Nichols Hills
A sweeping decision by the Alabama Supreme Court in February sent shock waves through the world of assisted reproduction. Justice Jay Mitchell, writing on behalf of the court’s 7-2 majority, concluded that human embryos in IVF clinics “are ‘children,’ … without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or any other ancillary characteristics.”
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI wrote a teaching letter on the topic of the Eucharist to the entire Church following a synod of bishops. In that letter he writes, “The Eucharist is constitutive of the Church's being and activity.
As we continue this graced time of Eucharistic Revival in the United States and prepare for the historic National Eucharistic Congress in July, I am devoting my column this year to a deeper catechesis on the mystery of the Eucharist and the Mass.