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Oklahoma nun opens homes for seniors to join new ‘family’

Jul 5, 2018

A religious sister in Oklahoma runs a ministry for the elderly, allowing them to live out their lives surrounded by people who love them.

By Carla Hinton

Bishops: Kansas, Oklahoma ‘keeping kids first’ with conscience rights law

May 21, 2018

Kansas and Oklahoma “are keeping kids first” by enacting laws protecting the conscience rights of adoption and foster care providers, said the chairmen of three U.S. bishops’ committees May 18.

By Catholic News Service

Oklahoma governor signs adoption law opposed by LGBT groups

May 12, 2018

Oklahoma governor signs a bill that provides legal protections to faith-based agencies that won’t place children in LGBT homes because of religious or moral convictions or policies.

By Associated Press

When adoption agencies can turn away gay prospective parents, what happens to the kids?

Mar 25, 2018

Many states are grappling with whether or not to pass legislation allowing private adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples and other prospective parents who don’t meet their religious criteria.

By Bobby Ross Jr.

Closing doors: Small religious colleges struggle for survival

Nov 25, 2017

More than 60 percent of Catholic universities in the U.S. have fewer than 2,500 students, and most have “very little in the way of financial endowment,” said Paula Moore, vice president of external relations for the Washington, D.C.-based Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.

By Bobby Ross Jr.

Catholic group continues Blessed Stanley Rother’s work in Guatemala

Sep 26, 2017

Blessed Stanley Rother was also known for not wanting to abandon his people, even though he knew his life was at risk. After Rother died, his friend Father John Goggin said he still did not want the people to feel abandoned. That’s why he was grateful when the opportunity came to work with Unbound, a non-profit founded by lay Catholics who had also spent time serving as missionaries in Latin America.

By Mary Rezac