'He was a good shepherd': Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine dedicated in Oklahoma City

A statue of Blessed Stanley Rother at the new shrine in his honor in Oklahoma City. / Alan Holdren/EWTN NewsSt. Louis, Mo., Feb 17, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).Stanley Rother, born a simple Oklahoma farm boy, became a Catholic priest and volunteered to serve the poor as a missionary in Guatemala in 1968. Thirteen years later, a group of armed men shot him to death in his rectory.Four decades on, with thousands in attendance and amid a resounding, angelic choir, the archbishop of Oklahoma City dedicated and opened a multimillion-dollar, 2,000-seat shrine built in Rother's honor.Rother, who was reinterred in a chapel at the shrine over the weekend, is on the path to sainthood (he was beatified in 2017)."Yes, we honor Stanley Rother here. But none of this, ultimately, is about Blessed Stanley," Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City said in his homily to the faithful at the Feb. 17 Mass, portions of which were celebrated in Spanish, at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine."It's not about...

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