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Sister Veronica Higgins of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus died in a car accident Jan. 2, 2025, after running off a rural highway northwest of the city, according to local news reports.

Oklahoma City nun dies in car crash after suspected medical incident

Jan 3, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Sister Veronica Higgins, 74, was “apparently ill,” and troopers wrote in the report that the cause of the collision was... Read more

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley preaching during Mass in the cathedral in 2021.

Oklahoma archbishop: Supreme Court review of execution could further cause of abolition

Jan 24, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the case of an Oklahoma man on death row who... Read more

A statue of Blessed Stanley Rother at the new shrine in his honor in Oklahoma City.

‘He was a good shepherd’: Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine dedicated in Oklahoma City

Feb 17, 2023

By Jonah McKeown

The archbishop of Oklahoma City dedicated and opened a multimillion-dollar, 2,000-seat shrine built in Rother’s honor on Feb. 17. Read more

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Archdiocese to break ground for Bl. Stanley Rother shrine in November 

Aug 20, 2019

The shy and unassuming Blessed Father Stanley Rother, a missionary priest and martyr from a farming family, would likely be... Read more

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City carries the Eucharist in procession Sept. 21 to counter a black mass held at the city's civic music hall.

Thousands of prayerful witnesses dwarf black mass turnout in OKC

Sep 22, 2014

Thousands of Catholics across Oklahoma responded to a sparsely attended black mass in Oklahoma City with prayers, Eucharistic processions, and... Read more

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Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives outside Massachusetts' Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment, Sept. 3, 2021.

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Father Arul Carasala served as a pastor in the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas for over 20 years.

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Nuns of the Little Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus in Haiti.

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Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment, Sept. 3, 2021.

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick dies at 94

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Andrew Abela, founding dean of the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America and author of “Super Habits,” gives the keynote address “From ESG to Virtue: The Business Case” at the 2025 Christian Institutional Investors conference in Lakewood, Colorado, on April 3, 2025.

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Catholic pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao was assaulted in New York City on Thursday, April 3, 2025, while conducting a video interview with a pro-abortion advocate. 

Catholic pro-life activist assaulted in New York City during video interview

Livia Tossici-Bolt speaks to the media after being found guilty of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order at Poole Magistrates’ Court on April 4, 2025, in Poole, England.

Woman convicted for silently holding sign outside UK abortion clinic

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican secretary for relations with states.

Vatican, Russia discuss war in Ukraine after drone strike kills civilians in Kharkiv

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