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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

The bold capture of President Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela resulted in many reactions. Among them for some Venezuelans locally: hope.

With 1,500 women in attendance, the 19th annual Oklahoma Catholic Women’s Conference became the largest Catholic women’s Bible study in the state.

Mount Saint Mary Catholic High School hosted its annual Magic at the Mount Gala on Feb. 7 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, raising $302,000.

The Church has once again entered the liturgical season of Lent. It is a time of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer as everyone prepares their hearts for the Passion, death and Resurrection of Christ. This preparation takes many different forms at The Mount.

With a couple scrimmages behind them, Irish baseball is gearing up for its season with the addition of new coach Grant Ledbetter.

When Sarai heard her name announced as homecoming queen, she stood still for a moment, visibly surprised, before classmates surrounded her with congratulations. Moments later, Isaias stood beside her as homecoming king, smiling as students filled the gym with applause.

Jonah Soucy is a graduate with a Master of Arts degree in catechetics and evangelization from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. His book, “40 Days, 40 Ways to Pray” is an introduction or summary of various kinds or methods of prayer within the Roman Catholic Church. This includes Eastern Rites, too.

SINSINAWA, Wis.—Sister Sigrid Simlik, OP, died Jan. 23 at Saint Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Her remembering service was held Feb. 12 at Saint Dominic Villa, and her Funeral Mass followed.

If you’re like me, you were impressed by the athletes of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. In them we witnessed both the rewards of hard work and the traumatizing effects of extreme expectation.

Margaret “Peg” Malloy has long worked to help her community, influenced by her Irish heritage and the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard, a pioneering social reformer and Oklahoma’s first woman elected to statewide office.

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.

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 Oct. 12, 1875, two intrepid monks from the French Benedictine monastery of Saint Marie of La Pierre-qui-Vire set foot for the first time in the mission territory entrusted to them. Father Isidore Robot, O.S.B., and Brother Dominic Lambert, O.S.B., finally had arrived at a destiny and mission that was long in the making – a destiny and mission that eventually would evolve not only into Saint Gregory’s Abbey, but also into the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa.

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.