VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican Secretariat of State’s report on Theodore E. McCarrick provides a glimpse into how a number of witnesses and victims of the former cardinal’s abuse sought numerous ways to alert church officials and were disturbingly aware their allegations might trigger repercussions.

When participating in traditional American Indian dances and ceremonies, Jolene Schonchin always wears a cross and a medal of Mary on her regalia.

Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

Although cases of COVID-19 are rising in the state, Religious Education classes have continued despite the pandemic. Thanks to the innovative procedures of the RE catechists throughout the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, students are continuing their Catholic studies on schedule.

When parishes in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City began using the YDisciple program for small group ministry, many ministry leaders had no idea how valuable the program would become.

For 50 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has provided funding to groups that empower individuals to break the cycle of poverty for themselves as well as defend the dignity of all human beings in the United States.

The Dorothy Day Center at Saint Charles Borromeo has been rising early to deliver food, toting heavy grocery sacks and responding to messages for help for 15 years.

Bishop Eugene McGuinness was a visionary of boundless energy and after 11 years as Bishop of the Diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, proposed a bold and innovative plan. Experiencing the ignorance and fear of the Catholic Church that many possessed in Oklahoma during the 1950s, he devised “Operation Understanding.”

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

This is a version of the Gospel according to Saint Luke for children ages seven and above. This book was originally published in French in 2017. Scriptural quotes are from the “Revised Standard Version of the Bible” – the second Catholic edition. The authors are a team of two members of the laity and two priests and the illustrator Adelin Avril.

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO – La prueba de estar en un camino de conversión y santidad consiste siempre en amar al prójimo, dijo el papa Francisco.

At the Nov. 1 Mass of Thanksgiving for newly beatified Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore said McGivney provides a model for both priests and laypeople of how to “live the Beatitudes.”