At the Discipleship Conference on Aug. 19 in Oklahoma City, the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma presented its 2023 Religious Educator of the Year Award to Matt Biddick of Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Norman.

Meet Corky McMullen, from Saint Philip Neri Catholic School, Jenny Richard from Christ the King Catholic School and George Meiwes from Saint John Nepomuk Catholic School.

Margaret Alacoque was born in France in 1647. From her early childhood she showed intense love for the Blessed Sacrament and preferred silence and prayer to childish activities. Her father died when she was 8 years old, and frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament in the parish church became her only consolation.

The relationship between the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, George Mundelein, and the head of the Catholic Church Extension Society, Monsignor Francis Clement Kelley, later the second bishop of Oklahoma, was mercurial.

For the second consecutive year, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City is partnering with the Saint John Paul II Foundation to present the Together in Holiness marriage enrichment conference for couples on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church in Oklahoma City.

Award-winning historian and author Shannen Dee Williams, Ph.D., will deliver a public lecture at the University of Oklahoma titled, “Still Mining the Forgotten: The Hidden History and Legacies of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States.”