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El verano llegó y los estudiantes y el personal de nuestras escuelas católicas de la arquidiócesis se están tomando un descanso muy necesario, y además muy merecido, dado el éxito del ciclo escolar que acaba de concluir.

Summer has arrived and students and staff in our archdiocesan Catholic schools are taking a much-needed and much-deserved break, given the success of the just-concluded school year.

Durante los últimos tres años, la Arquidiócesis de Oklahoma City ha organizado la Conferencia de Discipulado, que ha atraído a más de 1200 católicos de Oklahoma y otras partes del mundo.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Access to vast amounts of data and information is not the same thing as having intelligence, which is uniquely human and requires being open to truth, goodness and the real meaning of life, Pope Leo XIV told AI experts and executives.

Fr. Bird retiring from Divine Worship office, leaving his mark on archdiocese’s major events

Rita Johnson named Religious Educator of the Year

Across the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, 7,377 families have come together in support of the 2025 Annual Catholic Appeal, Faith in Action. Thanks to their generosity, $3 million has been raised toward the $4.5 million goal, leaving $1.5 million needed to fully fund the ministries that serve thousands each year.

For the past three years, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has organized the Discipleship Conference, attracting more than 1,200 Catholics from Oklahoma and beyond.

On the evening of Tuesday, June 10 – exactly 75 years from the first Mass celebrated at Saint Patrick Catholic Parish inside Saint Ann’s Home for the Aged – clergy, parishioners, former parish school students, special guests and friends gathered to celebrate a milestone anniversary at Saint Patrick Catholic Church.

The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City welcomes four principals to new positions for the 2025-26 school year.

Seventy years can seem like a lifetime, a well-spent life, spent raising kids and helping with grandkids, preparing a new generation of family.

The Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine received a recent grant from the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma to launch a new traveling exhibit entitled “Journey of Faith and Culture,” designed to educate junior high students about the life and legacy of Blessed Stanley Rother and the Tz’utujil culture.

Exposure to a new way of teaching has proven invaluable for Mary Cross, a pre-kindergarten teacher at All Saints Catholic School in Norman.

Kara Rother, a local nurse and health care executive with 18 years of experience, is Mercy’s new top nurse in Oklahoma City. Rother will lead 1,700 Mercy nurses in the Oklahoma City metro beginning July 21. “It’s the honor of my career to be entrusted to work with a team of such dedicated and compassionate nurses,” said Rother. “I’m excited to work in a city I love serving patients who are my neighbors. Whether it’s in our hospital or our clinics, Mercy nurses serve so many families here in Oklahoma City. Providing them with the best possible care is what motivates us.” Born in Okarche into the Eischen family of the bar and fried chicken fame, Rother is married with three sons. Through marriage she’s also related to Blessed Stanley Rother.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a group of lay Catholic volunteers from all walks of life. Inspired by Gospel values, they work to assist those in need through loving and compassionate person-to-person service in neighborhoods and communities.

Cada vez que celebramos la ordenación de nuevos sacerdotes se nos presenta una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre el don y el misterio del orden sacerdotal en la vida de la Iglesia.

Each time we celebrate the ordination of new priests we have an opportunity to reflect on the gift and mystery of the ordained priesthood in the life of the Church.

Antes de que naciera el diácono John Grim, sus padres rezaron para que Dios les diera un hijo llamado a ser sacerdote. El 28 de junio, si Dios quiere, sus oraciones serán escuchadas.

Cate Whitmarsh, still taking in a special day, reflected on the awe of her proximity to Jesus. “I was able to walk probably three feet from Christ for over an hour,” Whitmarsh said. “It’s incredible to think about that after the fact. “It felt like we were walking together, hand-in-hand, like best friends.”

Before Deacon John Grim was born, his parents prayed that God would bring them a son who was called to be a priest. On June 28, God willing, their prayers will be answered.