A remarkable week in the history of the Catholic Church in Oklahoma, Central America and the United States concluded today with the Dedication Mass of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine.
(OSV News) Michael Cook was away from the Catholic Church for a while, but around 2017, he was amazingly pulled back in. Not coincidentally, that was the same year that fellow native Oklahoman Father Stanley Rother the first U.S.-born martyr formally recognized by the church was beatified. I would definitely put some credit for him helping me come back to the church, 100%, said Cook, 37, who attends St. John Nepomuk Parish in Yukon, Oklahoma. I just was led. I think I had someone