Father Stanley Rother is the first U.S. born priest to be named ‘blessed’
Stanley Rother
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Kansas nun shares memories of her brother who is on path to sainthood
Sister Marita Rother really didn’t get to know her brother, Father Stanley Rother, as a priest until she visited him in Guatemala in the 1970s.
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Kansas priest recalls friendship with martyr as beatification nears
Father Don McCarthy shares memories of his friend Father Stanley Rother, who was martyred in Guatemala.
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Stanley Rother will be first U.S.-born priest beatified
On Sept. 23, Fr. Stanley Francis Rother will become the first U.S.-born priest to be beatified.
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Father Stanley Rother knew “a shepherd cannot run from his flock.”
Before Father Rother died for his people, he had farmed with them, listened to them and spoken of God to them.
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Website details the life of Father Stanley Rother, who will soon be beatified
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has opened a website detailing the life, as well as steps toward sainthood, of Father Stanley Rother.
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Martyred Oklahoma priest’s beatification scheduled for September
Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified on Sept. 23 in Oklahoma.
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An American Martyr
Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of the Rev. Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, making him the first martyr born in the United States and clearing the way for his beatification. The Vatican made the announcement on Dec. 2. Father Rother, born March 27, 1935, on his family&r
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Why does it take so long for the Catholic Church to recognize martyrs of justice?
The church is now recognizing what the local church in Central and South America has always known.
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Pope Francis recognizes martyrdom of an Oklahoma priest killed in Guatemala
Father Stanley Rother is the first recognized martyr from the United States.