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It’s Catholic Schools Week! From Jan. 25 to Jan. 31 Catholic schools across the country celebrate the legacy of Catholic education in the United States. Catholic education is seeing a renewal and resurgence nationwide, as young families and others are returning to or discovering Jesus Christ and his Church.

On Jan. 14, the governor-appointed Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3–2 to deny clemency for death row inmate Kendrick Simpson. Convicted of the 2006 killings of Glen Palmer and Anthony Jones, Simpson is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 12, unless Gov. Kevin Stitt grants a last-minute reprieve.

Pick up a book penned by Father Larry Richards and it’s clear he’s not fooling around. “Be a Man!” “Surrender!” Richards frequently takes aim at men – challenging them to be better men, husbands and fathers. And that will surely be in focus when Richards returns to the Oklahoma Catholic Men’s Conference, In The Father’s Footsteps, set for March 14 at the Oklahoma City Convention Center. The theme of the conference: Seeking the Will of God.

On a steamy Georgia morning in March 1965, Father Eusebius Beltran and three of his brother priests piled into the four-door sedan they borrowed from the Archdiocese of Atlanta and headed south toward Selma, Ala.

Willard Patocka has led a life of service that shows no sign of slowing at age 94.

Did you know Oklahoma taxpayers may use their state income taxes to help children attend Catholic school? If you answered “No,” then you aren’t alone.

On an October day in 1875, two intrepid monks from the French Benedictine monastery of Our Lady of La Pierre-qui-Vire set foot for the first time in the mission territory that had been entrusted to them by the Church.

The Sooner Catholic and the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City office of communications received eight awards from the Catholic Media Association during the 2025 Catholic Media Conference held June 24-27 in Phoenix. Awards are from 2024 publications, graphics and videos.

Long-time parishioner Celeste Kreb served up Irish meatballs – three varieties – drawing long lines that offered little rest in the booth situated just outside the parish hall at Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Oklahoma City.

On a cool October morning, 50 Mount St. Mary Catholic High School first-year theology students stepped off their school bus into an open field. In the distance, the smell of a warm burning campfire welcomed them.

More than 200 friends, family members, priests, deacons and the faithful filled The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help on June 1 to witness the transitional diaconate ordination of John Grim and Jonah Beckham. God willing, they will be ordained to the priesthood in 2025.

Kasey Holt held her newborn son Levi close in the moments after childbirth, husband Avery by her side, in a Saint Anthony Hospital room filled with joy.

Each second Sunday of Easter, April 7 this year, the Catholic Church worldwide celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II on April 22, 2020. 

The Office of Hispanic Ministry held its first Formation for Quinceañeras on March 2 at the Catholic Pastoral Center.

Nationally recognized concert organist Todd Wilson will perform an organ concert at 6 p.m. on April 7 at Christ the King Catholic Church, 8005 Dorset Drive in Nichols Hills

We now are approaching the very heart of the Church’s liturgical year, the Paschal Triduum.

Jeff Cavins prepped for the Jan. 1, 2021, rollout of the Bible in a Year podcast in a peculiar way.

At Mass, should the congregation hold hands during the Our Father prayer?