• What might the new year bring?
    January 13, 2022
    by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
    At the beginning of a new year, it’s impossible to predict the dominant headlines and impactful stories that will shape our lives in 2022.
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  • Preguntas y respuestas con el nuevo director del Sagrado Corazón
    Preguntas y respuestas con el nuevo director del Sagrado Corazón
    January 13, 2022
    Nombre: Tera Albert
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  • Celebrating National Catholic Schools Week
    Celebrating National Catholic Schools Week
    January 12, 2022
    by Sally Linhart, the Sooner Catholic
    Parents have more options than ever when it comes to their children’s education. National Catholic Schools Week helps promote the benefits and many reasons parents in Oklahoma choose a Catholic education. 
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  • A message from the Director of Catholic Education
    A message from the Director of Catholic Education
    January 12, 2022
    “Mrs. Schuler, when is the week of fun going to happen? It’s my favorite week and I have all of my days planned.” 
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  • Faith leaders launch first Oklahoma March For Life
    Faith leaders launch first Oklahoma March For Life
    January 12, 2022
    Oklahoma faith leaders announced the first annual Oklahoma March for Life to celebrate life and the value of the human person. The rally and march will be held Saturday, Jan. 22, at 10:30 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Capitol. 
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  • Official Assignment
    Official Assignment
    January 12, 2022
    Effective Dec. 10, 2021
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  • Mount St. Mary Catholic High School board accepts resignation of principal
    January 12, 2022
    The Board of Trustees for Mount Saint Mary Catholic High School accepted the resignation of the school’s principal effective Dec. 29. Director of Admissions Diane Floyd, Ed.D., is serving as interim principal.
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  • From the Archives
    From the Archives
    January 12, 2022
    by George Rigazzi, archdiocesan archivist
    Born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, in 1905, Alexander Andrews came to Oklahoma, leaving one mission field for another. 
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  • Mothers, daughters learn “spiritual beauty lasts forever”
    Mothers, daughters learn “spiritual beauty lasts forever”
    January 12, 2022
    The archdiocesan Marriage and Family Life Office and the Office of Children’s Evangelism and Discipleship recently hosted “Altogether Lovely,” a bilingual program for mothers and daughters geared toward opening conversations about all things truth and beauty as well as the physical changes that girls will experience as they become young women. 
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  • Q&A with Sacred Heart’s new principal
    Q&A with Sacred Heart’s new principal
    January 12, 2022
    Name: Tera Albert
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  • Book Review: “What to Say When”
    Book Review: “What to Say When”
    January 12, 2022
    by John H. Dolezal, the Sooner Catholic
    “What to Say When, The Complete New Guide to Discussing Abortion,” co-authored by Shawn Carney and Steve Karlen, provides practical advice for pro-life response to many premises of the pro-abortion argument. The book is designed to educate and equip the pro-life reader for “winning” the argument of abortion. 
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  • Largest fundraising campaign in Mercy history complete for Love Family Women’s Center
    Largest fundraising campaign in Mercy history complete for Love Family Women’s Center
    January 12, 2022
    Mercy Health Foundation reached its $40 million fundraising goal for the Love Family Women’s Center thanks to an early Christmas donation from a generous local family. Mark Davenport and his mother, Pat, together gave $1.5 million to close out the two-year campaign for the women’s center project, the largest fundraising goal in Mercy’s nearly 200-year history. 
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  • Archdiocesan evangelization director wins national award
    January 12, 2022
    WASHINGTON D.C. – The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry to recognize seven individuals and one organization for their significant and outstanding contributions to the field of Catholic youth ministry at an online awards ceremony Feb. 9.
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  • The Catholic Difference: The Vatican’s unread newspaper and the U.S. bishops
    January 12, 2022
    by George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
    When I began working with some regularity in Rome 30 years ago, my elders and betters taught me that no one paid much attention to the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. 
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  • Afghan immigrant helps church agency welcome refugees from his homeland
    Afghan immigrant helps church agency welcome refugees from his homeland
    January 6, 2022
    by Sam Lucero, Catholic News Service
    ALLOUEZ, Wis. (CNS) — Sayed Wardak, 32, spent five years as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. In 2016, after nearly a year of hiding from the Taliban and in fear for his life, Wardak and his wife, Sairah, immigrated to the United States.
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  • Pope asks pontifical council to begin planning Holy Year 2025
    Pope asks pontifical council to begin planning Holy Year 2025
    January 6, 2022
    by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Preparations for the Holy Year 2025 have already begun, and Pope Francis has asked the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization to take charge of the efforts.
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  • Mother Seton shrine launches initiatives to expand awareness of U.S. saint
    Mother Seton shrine launches initiatives to expand awareness of U.S. saint
    January 6, 2022
    by Catholic News Service
    EMMITSBURG, Md. (CNS) — The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg is launching a series of initiatives to expand awareness of first U.S.-born saint, it announced Jan. 4, on the saint’s feast day.
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