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From left: Blessed Stanley Rother; Helen Marie Janning Guthrie; and Woody Guthrie (CNS/Charlene Scott; Courtesy of Larry Guthrie; Wikimedia Commons/Al Aumuller/New York World-Telegram and the Sun)

The fertile fields of western Oklahoma Catholicism

Commentary: The western Oklahoma German Catholic community of the 1930s produced incipient saint Blessed Fr. Stanley Rother; future White House staffer Helen Marie Janning Guthrie; and balladeer and activist Woody Guthrie.

Oklahoma set to welcome world for beatification of 'ordinary' native son

By Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service

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