St. Joseph Old Cathedral reopened recently with a rededication Mass more than a year and a half after it was heavily damaged in the federal building bombing.
More than 450 people gathered for the Mass at the Catholic church across the street from where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood. The church was one of three heavily damaged in the explosion on April 19, 1995.The Most Rev. Eusebius J. Beltran, archbishop of the Oklahoma diocese, officiated at the service, which included a moment of silence for the 168 people who died in the bombing.
He called the rededication "a positive step in the healing of the wounds of the bombing" and expressed sympathy to the families of those who died and to the 500 injured and their families.