2020 was a lost year for education for many students, but not for the 101 GED/HiSET graduates of the Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma Adult Education program.

Barry Corum reflects on this past year as he sits in an empty warehouse at Catholic Charities’ main campus in North Tulsa. An upcoming renovation project has temporarily moved the food distribution to a warehouse at 59th and Mingo. Hundreds of volunteers alongside Barry stepped up since March of 2020...

Gathering Place is partnering with Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma to become a distribution location to provide free food boxes through the USDA Farmers To Families Food Box Program.

Several local businesses are assisting public health officials to distribute 40,000 disposable masks to help stymie the transmission of COVID-19. Masks will be available free at Reasor’s Foods, Rib Crib and Catholic Charities, according to a news release. The masks are being donated by Saint Francis Health System.

In the next chapter of 2020 complications, flu season is coming to Tulsa alongside the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Cindy Stidham never thought that at 56 she’d be pawning off her belongings just to keep the utilities on. She never thought that in Tulsa, where she’s lived and worked for the past decade, that she’d be walking to a nonprofit in November to pick up a Thanksgiving dinner; towing...

Standing on the auditorium stage with her diploma in hand, 78-year-old Maria Castro felt like a queen. A lifetime of sacrifice and limitations prevented her from pursuing the school experience, but the newly minted American persevered.

A major Bartlesville food ministry announced this week it will become part of Tulsa-based Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma. Mary Martha Outreach, which distributed 4.5 million pounds of fresh food and produce to needy people last year, will merge with Catholic Charities in January, said Mark Haskell, vice chair of the outreach...

Catie Coulter is a TU College of Law graduate who did go into immigration law, first in private practice and now at Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma, which since 1985 has served immigrants who can’t afford a private attorney. “I’ve always been on the humanitarian side of things,” she says.

Before each cart of food could be wheeled out to a waiting vehicle, it first had to get past Jennifer Blankenship. “My job is to make sure they have everything they are supposed to have,” said the volunteer as she glanced over the contents of another cart on Wednesday at...