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ROME (CNS) -- A pilgrimage to the apostles' tombs in Rome helps bishops renew their sense of unity as well as rededicate themselves to being missionaries bringing the Gospel to the world, said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City.

It’s no secret that our public education system in Oklahoma is broken as we are consistently ranked in the lowest tier among the 50 states. Catholic schools exist both to address that problem and to provide higher quality private education with critical formation in our Catholic faith. So, how can we sustain this important apostolate?

Catholic Schools Week – an annual celebration of what makes Catholic education so special – will be celebrated from Jan. 26 - Feb. 1.

Father Leo Patalinghug once bested Bobby Flay on his Food Network competition show, “Throw Down with Bobby Flay!”

Oklahoma City Community Foundation awards grants to provide warm meals

This is part of a series to introduce the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.

Armed with an immense amount of talent and unfailing optimism, Father Roberto Quant was ordained by Archbishop Charles Salatka on June 1, 1991.

Probably the biggest bioethics story of 2019 involved Dr. Jankui He (known to his associates as “JK”), a Chinese scientist who employed a new technology called CRISPR/Cas9 to produce the world’s first gene-edited babies.

We are constantly told that abortion without restrictions means that we trust a woman to make decisions for her own body. Let her choose when she becomes a mother, they say. These decisions are between her and her doctor.

We are an Easter people. Our lives are centered on the risen Lord that continues to save, redeem and nurture us with his very life and love. Ultimately, we live in and through the risen Christ.

The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film “The Two Popes” should, by rights, be called “The One Pope,” for it presents a fairly nuanced, textured and sympathetic portrait of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) and a complete caricature of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

Dressed in a white robe and his colorful Guatemalan stole, Blessed Stanley Rother spoke to a group of metro area children.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has a history of over 100 years . . . , in which Christians around the world have taken part in an octave of prayer for visible Christian unity.  By annually observing the WPCU, Christians move toward the fulfillment of Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper "that they all may be one."  (cf. John 17:21)

The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has substantiated an allegation of child sexual abuse involving a priest who served in the archdiocese in 2001.

SHAWNEE – The monks of Saint Gregory’s Abbey have announced the opening of a store to feature unique items. “The Monks’ Marketplace” will be located at the abbey in Shawnee and is scheduled to open Jan. 15.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has abolished the obligation of secrecy for those who report having been sexually abused by a priest and for those who testify in a church trial or process having to do with clerical sexual abuse.

On Jan. 15, Archbishop Coakley will preside over the annual Sanctity of Life Mass at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to pray for the sanctity and respect of all human life from conception until natural death.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, passed by the House Dec. 11 with a 260-165 bipartisan vote, aims "to make a better system for both the farmer and the farmworkers and to create a more effective and humane agriculture industry," said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

According to Father James White, a diocesan historian, Father Ramon Carlin “was a rare person. He both warmed hearts and heated blood pressures. He was a pied piper and an agitator. His life, in the words of the old liturgical rubrics, was a moveable feast.”

This is part of a series to introduce the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.