Pope recognizes martyrdom of Oklahoma priest killed in Guatemala
Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, making him the first martyr born in the United States.
View ArticleArchdiocese announces beatification date for Oklahoma priest
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced that one its native sons, Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified...
View ArticleTrailer released for Father Rother documentary
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has released a three-minute trailer to a forthcoming documentary on Father Stanley Rother, a U.S. priest who worked in Guatemala for 14 years until he was brutally...
View ArticleMagnitude 8.1 earthquake strikes off Pacific coast of Mexico, Guatemala
A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the Pacific coast of southern Mexico and Guatemala, causing buildings to collapse and tremors that rocked as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City.
View ArticleIn martyr’s ministry, the Gospel of Jesus ‘trumped evil,’ says priest
To Father Thomas Connery, his old seminary classmate was "a big guy from a farming family" who loved music and worked hard.
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Latin American Catholics say ‘personal’ experiences boost evangelicals
Evangelical Christians participate in a worship service at the Maranatha Christian Church in Valencia, Venezuela, April 22, 2018. The church’s lead pastor, Javier Bertucci, resigned from his post to...
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Lifetime of fighting for human rights earns sister a place in history
Sister Alice Zachmann thinks of herself as being more of a peacemaker than a history maker. She is both, according to the National Women’s History Alliance, a California-based organization that...
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Schools try to curb migration from Guatemala with little success
Carlos Rene Osorio, principal of the Jesuit-run Faith and Joy education center in Palencia, Guatemala, poses outside the school Aug. 14, 2019. The school is challenged to keep students enrolled because...
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Blessed Miller kept ’28-hour days,’ helped indigenous Guatemalans
A clergyman distributes Communion during the beatification Mass of Blessed James Miller in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. CNS photo/CNS photo/David Agren Blessed James Miller used to wake daily at the crack...
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Everyday Heroes: Knight brings more than clean water to Guatemalans
The only water available to the people in the mountain region of Santa Maria in Jalapa, Guatemala, was bacteria-infested. Women and girls would spend as much as eight hours per day hauling the water...
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Priest helping migrants, staff in Guatemala receive death threats
Scalabrinian Father Mauro Verzeletti pictured Jan. 12, 2020, at San Antonio Parish in Soyapango, El Salvador, discuss the worries he has over the treatment of migrants headed toward the U.S. in the...
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U.S. deporting Guatemalans has led to spread of COVID-19, report says
A bus driver outside Guatemala City directs people boarding a bus March 19, 2020, after they were deported from the United States. CNS photo/Fabricio Alonso, Reuters A report by the Washington-based...
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Trailer released for Father Rother documentary
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has released a three-minute trailer to a forthcoming documentary on Father Stanley Rother, a U.S. priest who worked in Guatemala for 14 years until he was brutally...
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Magnitude 8.1 earthquake strikes off Pacific coast of Mexico, Guatemala
People look at the damaged floor of their yard early Sept. 8 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, after a magnitude 8.1earthquake struck hours earlier. The quake was felt as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City....
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In martyr’s ministry, the Gospel of Jesus ‘trumped evil,’ says priest
A reliquary holding a relic of Blessed Stanley Rother is seen during his beatification Mass Sept. 23 at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center. Blessed Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese,...
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Latin American Catholics say ‘personal’ experiences boost evangelicals
Evangelical Christians participate in a worship service at the Maranatha Christian Church in Valencia, Venezuela, April 22, 2018. The church’s lead pastor, Javier Bertucci, resigned from his post to...
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Lifetime of fighting for human rights earns sister a place in history
Sister Alice Zachmann thinks of herself as being more of a peacemaker than a history maker. She is both, according to the National Women’s History Alliance, a California-based organization that...
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Schools try to curb migration from Guatemala with little success
Carlos Rene Osorio, principal of the Jesuit-run Faith and Joy education center in Palencia, Guatemala, poses outside the school Aug. 14, 2019. The school is challenged to keep students enrolled because...
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Blessed Miller kept ’28-hour days,’ helped indigenous Guatemalans
A clergyman distributes Communion during the beatification Mass of Blessed James Miller in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. CNS photo/CNS photo/David Agren Blessed James Miller used to wake daily at the crack...
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Everyday Heroes: Knight brings more than clean water to Guatemalans
The only water available to the people in the mountain region of Santa Maria in Jalapa, Guatemala, was bacteria-infested. Women and girls would spend as much as eight hours per day hauling the water...
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