Indeed, Blessed Stanley Rother served as a shepherd to his last moment on earth. As he wrote and said more than once, “At the first sign of danger, the shepherd can’t just leave and leave the sheep to ...

Don Wolf, rector of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine and a cousin of Blessed Rother, shared these words in a documentary ...

Sister Marita Rother, 81, is the younger sister of martyred Father Stanley Rother (1935-81), the venerable servant of God who will be beatified Sept. 23. The missionary priest was murdered in 1981 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A martyred priest's remains made a final journey to a new Roman Catholic shrine early Monday in Oklahoma City. A casket bearing ...

Father Joe Townsend, pastor of St. Benedict Parish in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, bows before the altar and an image of Father Stanley Rother during a Sept. 22 vespers and vigil. Rother, a priest of the ...

Tom Rother, brother of Rev. Stanley Rother, talks about his family as he names the people in a Rother family portrait, taken in the 1960s. He is inside the Rother family home, built in 1920, on their ...

About 20,000 gathered Sept. 23 for the beatification of Fr. Stanley Francis Rother, a native of nearby Okarche, Oklahoma, who had been martyred in 1981 while serving in Guatemala. The unanticipated ...

Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese who was brutally murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered to the poor, is pictured in an undated photo. The ...

CAWKER CITY, Kan. (CNS) — In the cozy rectory behind Sts. Peter and Paul Church sits Father Don McCarthy with myriad items relating to his friend, Father Stanley Rother. “It’s kind of like a shrine in ...

The martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother “fills us with sadness but also gives us joy to see the kindness, generosity and courage of a great man of faith,” Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the ...