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The Kansas Capitol in Topeka.

Leader of ‘black mass’ arrested at Kansas Capitol after punching protester

Mar 28, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Catholic leaders in the state while deploring the planned sacriligious “black mass” had called for peaceful and prayerful resistance.  Read more

Kansas Capitol building in Topeka.

Prayer and peaceful protest planned in response to ‘black mass’ in Kansas

Mar 27, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

To counter the Satanic event, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, will lead a Eucharistic Holy Hour at Assumption... Read more

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas City archbishop settles lawsuit against Satanist group over alleged stolen Eucharist

Mar 21, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Archbishop Joseph Naumann had on March 14 filed a lawsuit in Leavenworth County District Court seeking an order to secure... Read more

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on March 12, 2025, that said she has “limited authority” to cancel a scheduled “black mass,” instead decreeing that the event must take place outside and not inside the capitol building itself.

Kansas governor says ‘black mass’ must take place outside state capitol building

Mar 12, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

The organizer of the group planning the “black mass” has been telephoning the Kansas Catholic Conference to boast of his... Read more

Monstrance for adoration, stock photo.

Virginia parish to hold holy hour against planned black mass

Jan 22, 2020

By Christine Rousselle

A parish in Chesapeake, Virginia will host a Holy Hour of Reparation on Saturday to spiritually combat a scheduled black... Read more

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley.

Award praises OKC archbishop's 'rallying cry' against black mass

Dec 5, 2014

Oklahoma City’s Archbishop Paul Coakley has received a Catholic leadership award for his prominent opposition to a satanic black mass... Read more

Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall.

Petition against OKC black mass draws support of 85,000

Sep 14, 2014

More than 85,000 people have signed a petition asking the city-run Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall to cancel a... Read more

Eucharistic Adoration.

Successful Okla. lawsuit could stop future black masses

Aug 28, 2014

By Kevin J. Jones

A lawyer who helped recover a stolen Host that organizers of an Oklahoma City black mass intended to desecrate said... Read more

Eucharistic Adoration.

Okla. archbishop relieved at return of consecrated Host

Aug 21, 2014

Oklahoma City's archbishop voiced relief that satanists organizing a black mass in the city returned a stolen Host which was... Read more

Black mass organizers face lawsuit over stolen Host

Aug 20, 2014

Organizers of a satanic black mass slated to take place in Oklahoma City next month face a lawsuit on grounds... Read more

A woman recieves the Eucharist .

Prayers urged as black mass organizer claims consecrated Host

Aug 8, 2014

The purported use of a consecrated Host at a planned satanic black mass at an Oklahoma City civic center would... Read more

Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall. Photo

Tulsa bishop urges prayer, fasting in response to black mass

Aug 4, 2014

A novena of prayer and fasting leading up to the Feast of the Assumption has been planned to combat the... Read more

  Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall.

Archbishop calls slated black mass offensive, horrendous

Jul 16, 2014

By Carl Bunderson

Archbishop of Oklahoma City Paul Coakley called a black mass scheduled to take place in the city's civic center an... Read more

Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall. Photo

Okla. civic center defends black mass with sex offender

Jul 7, 2014

By Kevin J. Jones

A spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall defended a black mass being planned there by a convicted... Read more

Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall. Photo

Archbishop asks Okla. civic center to reconsider black mass

Jul 2, 2014

Just a few months after a black mass reenactment was planned – and then canceled – at Harvard University, another... Read more

Approximately 2,000 people attended a Holy Hour of Adoration and Benediction at St. Paul Parish, May 12, 2014.

Thousands swarm Harvard campus for prayer, protest

May 13, 2014

Amid the last-minute cancellation of a planned satanic black mass re-enactment, some 2,000 people gathered on Harvard's campus to take... Read more

Crimson banners hang outside Memorial Church on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 6, 2012.

Satanic black mass 'postponed indefinitely' amid outcry

May 12, 2014

By Michelle La Rosa, Adelaide Mena

A satanic black mass re-enactment being planned by a student group at Harvard University has been ‘postponed indefinitely’ and will... Read more

Eucharistic Adoration.

Masses, Adoration held across US in reparation for Harvard event

May 12, 2014

By Carl Bunderson

Catholics across the U.S. and around the world are gathering to hold Eucharistic Adoration and Masses in reparation for the... Read more

Harvard black mass raises questions about application of tolerance

May 12, 2014

By Michelle La Rosa

Harvard University’s acceptance of a satanic black mass re-enactment on campus raises larger questions of tolerance and whether it is... Read more

The satanic service is scheduled to take place in Queen's Head Pub in the basement of Memorial Hall at Harvard.

Harvard president: satanic mass 'abhorrent' but may proceed

May 12, 2014

The president of Harvard said that a student group’s plans to hold a re-enactment of a satanic black mass are... Read more