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In Piura, Peru, the priest with Oklahoma ties gathered with friends and waited like so many across the globe for the white smoke alerting all for the big news to come.

For teenagers in the United States, the odds are high that they will try drugs or alcohol during these formative years. In fact, statistics say 9 of 10 teens get addicted to these substances during those important years and usually begin as early as age 13.

Archbishop Coakley celebrates third annual Native American Mass

Archbishop Paul Coakley emerged from a list of 10 candidates in a vote Tuesday to be named president of the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops. Coakley, who has served as archbishop of Oklahoma City since 2010, was elected on the third ballot during the second day of the USCCB Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore. He will step into the role immediately.

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.

Effective Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (unless otherwise noted)

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.