• ‘Your dedication to making Christ’s love known …’
    ‘Your dedication to making Christ’s love known …’
    February 5, 2025
    by John Helsley, the Sooner Catholic
    2024 Appeal exceeds goal with record contributions
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  • Faith in Action: supporting impactful ministries across the archdiocese
    Faith in Action: supporting impactful ministries across the archdiocese
    February 5, 2025
    by Jennifer Yardley, director of Annual Giving
    As the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City embarks on the Jubilee Year, all Catholics are invited to embrace a renewed commitment to faith, generosity, and service. This year’s Annual Catholic Appeal theme, “Faith in Action,” calls us to actively live out our faith and support the essential ministries that strengthen the archdiocesan community.
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  • Statement from Archbishop Coakley on ‘mass deportation’
    February 5, 2025
    by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
    Pope Benedict XVI once famously reminded us that Jesus’ parents, Joseph and Mary, fled their own country in order to save the life of their child.
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  • Who was St. Valentine?
    Who was St. Valentine?
    February 5, 2025
    by John Helsley, the Sooner Catholic
    The patron saint of love and happy marriages, among other things, Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint.
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  • Valentine’s Day: ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8)
    Valentine’s Day: ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8)
    February 4, 2025
    by Very Rev. Christopher Hai Tran
    Hello February, the month I was born and the month when spring comes around the street; the month when branches and leaves sprout.
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  • Cruz delivers joy in St. Ann performances
    Cruz delivers joy in St. Ann performances
    February 4, 2025
    by John Helsley, the Sooner Catholic
    Edgar Cruz strums the familiar beginning chords to “Sweet Caroline” and hands immediately thrust into the air, swaying side to side with the music.
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  • Jewelry with a Purpose: Maria Darr creates saint-inspired earrings
    Jewelry with a Purpose: Maria Darr creates saint-inspired earrings
    February 4, 2025
    by Eliana Tedrow. the Sooner Catholic
    Drawing from the lives of saints, Maria Darr designs jewelry – primarily earrings – with a level of thoughtfulness and symbolism that points to the profound holiness of those men and women of God.
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  • Great year for Catholic Schools Opportunity Fund
    Great year for Catholic Schools Opportunity Fund
    February 4, 2025
    by Owen Canfield, director of the Catholic Schools Opportunity Fund
    Individuals, couples and businesses gave a combined $1.95 million to the Catholic Schools Opportunity Fund in 2024, which will help hundreds of students attend archdiocesan schools in the next school year.
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  • Moments at the Mount
    Moments at the Mount
    February 4, 2025
    by Emma Bowman. the Sooner Catholic
    A Student Spotlight … Kate Shipley didn't originally plan on being a Mount St. Mary student. She attended Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School for her freshman and sophomore years, yet ultimately sought a change to her educational environment.
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  • Irish Insights
    Irish Insights
    February 4, 2025
    by Katherine Menz, the Sooner Catholic
    Off to a fast start With the second semester in full swing, Irish students are busy with both academics and athletics while celebrating their school spirit …
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  • The Catholic Difference:Catholics, Hippocrates and reforming American medicine
    The Catholic Difference:Catholics, Hippocrates and reforming American medicine
    February 4, 2025
    by George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
    I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician. His daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist. My mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; so is one of my daughters and so is her husband. An aunt was a registered nurse, and my niece is a hospital nutritionist.
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  • Catholic in Recovery
    February 4, 2025
    Catholic in Recovery meetings are at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Meerschaert House, second floor, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1901 N.W. 18 St. in Oklahoma City.
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  • Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project
    February 3, 2025
    The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, the Diocese of Tulsa and St. Gregory’s Abbey have launched the Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project to better understand the history and experiences of native students in Oklahoma Catholic boarding schools from 1880 to 1965. To contribute documents, photographs or an oral history to the project, e-mail info@oknativeschoolsproject.org. Learn more at archokc.org/oknativeschoolsproject.
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