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Nov. 15 retreat to focus on women’s discernment

October 17, 2025
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by Marc & Julie Anderson
Young women are invited to join Sister M. Karolyn, FSGM, top left, and other women religious for a weekend retreat this November. LEAVEN PHOTO BY MARC ANDERSON

WILLIAMSBURG — Young women are invited to join Sister M. Karolyn, FSGM, and a host of other women religious for a weekend retreat designed to help them learn more about all things associated with a vocation to the consecrated religious life.

Love’s Reply Discernment Retreat will be held Nov. 15 (beginning at 10 a.m.) to Nov. 16 (ending at 5 p.m.) at Prairie Star Ranch in Williamsburg.

Sponsored by the archdiocesan vocation office, Love’s Reply is free and open to all young women (juniors and seniors in high school up to age 29).

Questions? Contact the vocation office at (913) 647-0303 or send an email to: vocation@archkck.org.

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Marc & Julie Anderson

Freelancers Marc and Julie Anderson are long-time contributors to the Leaven. Married in 1996, for several years the high school sweethearts edited The Crown, the former newspaper of Christ the King Parish in Topeka which Julie has attended since its founding in 1977. In 2000, the Leaven offered the couple their first assignment. Since then, the Andersons’ work has also been featured in a variety of other Catholic and prolife media outlets. The couple has received numerous journalism awards from the Knights of Columbus, National Right to Life and the Catholic Press Association including three for their work on “Think It’s Not Happening Near You? Think Again,” a piece about human trafficking. A lifelong Catholic, Julie graduated from Most Pure Heart of Mary Grade School and Hayden Catholic High School in Topeka. Marc was received into the Catholic Church in 1993 at St. Paul Parish – Newman Center at Wichita State University. The two hold degrees from Washburn University in Topeka. Their only son, William James, was stillborn in 1997.

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