The following assignments were effective July 19

Since mid-September 2021, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has helped more than 1,800 Afghan refugees that arrived in Oklahoma. It can take many years to properly resettle a refugee into a new country and establish self-sustainability.

World Youth Day is one year away and coordinators are busy organizing the event and inviting youth to participate in the international gathering. It will take place July 27 – Aug. 8, 2023, in Rome and Lisbon, and it is estimated that more than one million Catholic youth will attend.

Sister Lucy Marie Fitzmorris, O.S.B., is asked often how she knew she wanted to be a religious sister. She spent years contemplating the answer.

On Aug. 13, everyone is invited to Diamondback Harley Davidson in Lawton at 9:30 a.m. for the annual Knights of Columbus Knights on Bikes Love Run benefiting The Center of Family Love in Okarche.

Priest, pastor, historian, story-teller par excellence and Oklahoma treasure are just of the few of the descriptions one could use for the recently-deceased Father James White.

NEW YORK CITY - The Sisters of Life, a religious congregation with a special fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life, is pleased to announce that seven sisters professed their first vows as Sisters of Life on June 25, the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Suffern, N.Y. Bishop Salvatore Matano of the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y., was the principal celebrant and homilist. Mother Agnes, Mother Superior of the Sisters of Life, received the sisters into the community at the Mass.

Brother Kevin (Eugene) McGuire, O.S.B., monk of St. Gregory’s Abbey, died July 7 in Shawnee. He was 83. Brother Kevin was born on May 17, 1939, in Oklahoma City to Paul and Doris (Ayotte) McGuire. He was baptized the next day and raised in the parish of The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help along with his two brothers and one sister.

Deacon Byron Ray Jacobson, Sr. died July 19. He was a beloved husband, father and grandfather. He was born on Aug. 30, 1955, in Port Hueneme, Calif., to his loving parents, Russell Eugene Jacobson and Vivian Jane (Chase) Jacobson.

This book, “The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico,” is a collection of articles in honor of Father Francisco Morales Valerio, O.F.M., a leading historian of the Franciscan order in Mexico.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection has released their 2021 annual report.