“I think the fact that she’s a Catholic and still pushed this investigation forward shows that she did it at great cost.”
Bobby Ross Jr. - Religion News Service
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Catholic faith moves Houston’s ‘Mattress Mack’ to shelter Hurricane Harvey victims
A mattress store owner, motivated by his Catholic faith, opened his business to evacuees from Hurricane Harvey and quickly became one of the crisis’ heroes and a symbol of Houston’s resilience.
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‘Father Stan’s Our Man’: Okla. farm town honors hometown hero on path to sainthood
Year after year, the slain priest’s childhood church celebrates a special anniversary Mass remembering the sacrifice Rev. Stanley Francis Rother made to serve Mayan descendants in a poor, mountain village 50 miles west of Guatemala City.
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The death penalty is a “just form of punishment,” Oklahoma residents say
Oklahomans overwhelmingly support capital punishment, despite highly publicized problems with lethal-injection drugs that prompted state officials to put a temporary moratorium on executions in 2015.