• This Christmas, focus on being good ‘soil’
    This Christmas, focus on being good ‘soil’
    December 18, 2025
    by Leonard J. DeLorenzo, OSV News
    The question at Christmas is not about whether God will act for us. The babe born of Mary is the answer: God has given everything. The question is really about us. Will we receive Christ?
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  • ¡Viva la Iglesia Catolica!
    ¡Viva la Iglesia Catolica!
    December 18, 2025
    by Fr. William Banowsky, the Sooner Catholic
    Merry Christmas As Christmas approaches, three priests from the archdiocese share their favorite memories. Here is a story from Fr. William Banowsky.
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  • Finding blessings in a blizzard
    Finding blessings in a blizzard
    December 18, 2025
    by Fr. Stephen Jones, the Sooner Catholic
    Merry Christmas As Christmas approaches, three priests from the archdiocese share their favorite memories. Here is a story from Fr. Stephen Jones.
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  • Gifts are great, but memories last forever
    Gifts are great, but memories last forever
    December 18, 2025
    by Fr. Cristobal De Loera, the Sooner Catholic
    Merry Christmas As Christmas approaches, three priests from the archdiocese share their favorite memories. Here is a story from Fr. Cristobal De Loera.
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  • Anniversary celebration keeps going at St. Gregory’s Abbey
    Anniversary celebration keeps going at St. Gregory’s Abbey
    December 18, 2025
    by Theresa Bragg
    As a continuation of the Sesquicentennial celebration, the 150th anniversary of the Mission of the Catholic Church in Oklahoma, the monks of Saint Gregory’s Abbey looked for additional ways to reach out and involve parishioners in our state.
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  • Fr. Scott Boeckman receives Human Rights Award
    Fr. Scott Boeckman receives Human Rights Award
    December 18, 2025
    by Bella Gutiérrez, the Sooner Catholic
    As a Catholic priest serving the southside of Oklahoma City, Father Scott Boeckman promotes the human desire that “all may be one,” in communion with one another.
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  • A  life well lived – giving and receiving
    A life well lived – giving and receiving
    December 18, 2025
    by John Helsley, the Sooner Catholic
    Edmiston’s 100-year celebration was cause for two celebrations
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  • Exodus 90 offers men a prayerful opportunity to grow
    Exodus 90 offers men a prayerful opportunity to grow
    December 18, 2025
    by Christopher Aderhold, the Sooner Catholic
    A 90-day spiritual exercise focused on fraternity, asceticism and prayer, Exodus 90 challenges men to leave behind the distractions and temptations of the modern world. By removing those impediments that can enslave, men instead fill their lives with prayer and sacrifice, allowing them the freedom to become who God made them to be.
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  • When service becomes a way of life
    When service becomes a way of life
    December 18, 2025
    by Owen Canfield
    Willard Patocka has led a life of service that shows no sign of slowing at age 94.
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  • Holy Angels announces spring programs
    Holy Angels announces spring programs
    December 18, 2025
    Holy Angels Education Center, a ministry of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, has announced its 2026 spring programs, designed to educate, equip and empower students while supporting immigrant integration through education.
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  • St. Eugene shares Thanksgiving blessings
    St. Eugene shares Thanksgiving blessings
    December 18, 2025
    by Lourdes Jea
    An ALDI grocery advertisement, showing how a family of 10 could enjoy a full Thanksgiving meal – turkey, sides and dessert – for just $40, caught the attention of Father Jim Goins and Sharon Blakely.
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  • Irish Insights: Irish reflect on the meaningful Christmas gifts
    Irish Insights: Irish reflect on the meaningful Christmas gifts
    December 18, 2025
    by Katherine Menz, the Sooner Catholic
    With Christmas approaching and preparations underway, Advent has been a season of reflection and gratitude for many in the McGuinness community. Because of this, we asked the Irish to recall and reflect on the gifts in their lives that were most meaningful.
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  • Moments at the Mount: Memories make great gifts
    Moments at the Mount: Memories make great gifts
    December 18, 2025
    by Lucy Rosenhamer, the Sooner Catholic
    Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s a time to spend with family, watch classic Christmas movies, and know of the inevitability that a perfect wrapping job will be torn to shreds in five seconds.
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  • Royals Report: Cristo Rey OKC celebrates faith, achievement, opportunity
    Royals Report: Cristo Rey OKC celebrates faith, achievement, opportunity
    December 18, 2025
    by Allison Turrubiartes, the Sooner Catholic
    In recent weeks, Cristo Rey OKC Catholic High School has marked a series of meaningful moments in which each are different in tone, but all tied together by the same sense of community, purpose and hope for the future.
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  • Book review: A Year of Daily Offerings: giving your life to God one day at a time
    Book review: A Year of Daily Offerings: giving your life to God one day at a time
    December 18, 2025
    by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B., the Sooner Catholic
    This is a daily Catholic devotional by Father James Kubicki, S.J. He has been involved with spiritual direction and retreat houses and formation programs for the Jesuits and diocesan clergy. He is the author of “Heart of Fire” (2012) and has been on EWTN and Relevant Radio.
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  • Making Sense of Bioethics: Embryo adoption: an open question?
    December 18, 2025
    When it comes to the plight of the hundreds of thousands of IVF embryos frozen in the U.S. and elsewhere, it is often claimed that the Catholic Church has never definitively addressed the liceity, or moral allowability, of “embryo transfer” (also known as embryo rescue or embryo adoption).
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  • Together in Faithful Stewardship: Supporting our Church through year-end giving
    Together in Faithful Stewardship: Supporting our Church through year-end giving
    December 4, 2025
    by Jennifer Yardley
    Because of you our Church is alive
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  • Together in Faithful Stewardship: Supporting our Church through year-end giving - shrine
    Together in Faithful Stewardship: Supporting our Church through year-end giving - shrine
    December 4, 2025
    by Araceli Mingura
    Because of you, pilgrims encounter faith
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  • Together in Faithful Stewardship: Supporting our Church through year-end giving - Catholic Charities
    Together in Faithful Stewardship: Supporting our Church through year-end giving - Catholic Charities
    December 4, 2025
    by Rachel Shortt
    Because of you, lives are renewed
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  • 'One mightier than I is coming': Advent with St. John the Baptist
    'One mightier than I is coming': Advent with St. John the Baptist
    December 4, 2025
    by D.D. Emmons, OSV News
    Search the Scriptures, and except for the Holy Family, no person is more favored by God than Saint John the Baptist. All four Gospels acclaim this holy man and set him apart from others. From before his birth, he was chosen by God to announce, baptize and identify Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah.
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