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Path to Canonization: Bl. Stanley Rother If the run to identify the miracle needed to solidify the cause for canonization of Blessed Stanley Rother shapes up as a long-distance relay – and it mostly is – then the handling of the baton would loom critical.

Independence Day stands as an easy date to remember for any American. But one particular July 4 – back in 2007 – remains unforgettable for Deacon Norm Mejstrik.

Crossing Lake Atitlán, situated in the massive volcanic crater in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre mountain range, Archbishop Paul Coakley glanced across the boat with a thought about Stanley Rother for Maria Scaperlanda.

Along with Blessed Stanley Rother, nearly 100 American men and women are currently being considered for sainthood. Some notable others also on the path with Blessed Stanley:

Upcoming Lenten fish fry dinners in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

Catholic Sisters Week: Young women share local stories of their call to religious life

Our Lady’s Cathedral bringing Hallow to Lenten mission

Each year, Catholics across the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City join to support the ministries that keep the Church present where it is needed most. Your generosity makes a difference in parishes large and small, in classrooms and campus centers, and in lives changed every day.

People see them every Lent: small cardboard boxes sitting in parish entryways, waiting to be taken home, filled one coin at a time, and brought back at the end of the season.

In Central Mexico, a sculpture offers a Lenten reflection

WASHINGTON – “Your faith matters. Your prayers matter. Your acts of love and works of justice matter,” said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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.