Editor’s Note: This article was published by the Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, and is reprinted with permission. TULSA, Okla. — At the end of May, our local community commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Sparked by the false accusation that a young black man
ORNETA, Poland — Sr. Maria Gunhilda was recovering from tuberculosis at a hospital in Orneta, northern Poland, when the Red Army arrived. It was 6 a.m. on Feb. 15, 1945, when soldiers entered the building. They were on their way to Berlin, where they would
A total eclipse of a super blood moon was visible in Australia for around 15 minutes last week and it was spectacular. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth passes directly in between the Sun and the Moon and the Moon appears to glow red, reflecting
The book might look like it’s just a list of names and numbers, but Robert Richard Allen Turner, pastor of Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, knows it’s more than that. “It’s a ledger of our history that we still need to know
After the American flag raising in Iwo Jima, a mass occurred in the top of the Mount Suribachi which encouraged the soldiers to proceed with the battle. The famous photo entitled Raising the flag on Iwo Jima recorded the moment when the Marines conquered, on
In his book Trust, Pete Buttigieg argues that many Americans now demand a more democratic polity, and that the frame of our government must change to accommodate these demands through “deep reforms,” including the elimination of the electoral college. In effect, Buttigieg argues that if many
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George Weigel lauded John Paul II as “a man of God, a brilliant analyst of the human condition, and a thoroughly lovable human being” on the 101st anniversary of the saint’s birth. Marking the May 18 anniversary, the papal biographer said that the pope’s teaching
If Catholic bishops in Germany were to be declared in schism amid a row over same-sex blessings and other doctrinal issues, the German government would recognize them to have lost the right to both oversee their dioceses and to administer the billions collected annually in
Sixty-five years of priesthood, some of them practiced under extreme conditions: Albanian Cardinal Ernest Simoni, 92 years old, celebrated this truly exceptional ecclesiastical milestone in Florence, Italy, on April 7. He spent 28 years as a prisoner doing hard labor rather than deny Christ and His
