Military chaplain returns to the archdiocese by Jill Ragar Esfeld jill.esfeld@theleaven.org Shawnee — After traveling the world as a chaplain for the U.S. Air Force, through 15 assignments and five deployments...
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Election year questions and answers
Voting is a profoundly important responsibility for each of us as Americans and as Catholics. It is not only an act of citizenship, but also an expression of conscience. Applying the principles of our Catholic faith to our...
Top chef
Eighteen-year-old Kealan O’Boyle led his team to a national cooking championship that helped change his and his teammates’ lives forever by Kara Hansen It may not have been “Iron Chef America,” but winning a national culinary...
Column: Jesus’ gentle reproach challenges us, too
by Father Mike Stubbs Once, I was asked to read the will after I had presided at the funeral of the deceased. As an outsider, I would appear not to favor any of the warring factions staking a claim to the inheritance. I...
It’s no fun to be always on the run
by Father Mark Goldasich Maybe it’s just the heat, but for some reason I feel a pressing need to come clean about something from my childhood. I owe an apology to those who knew me “way back when,” especially my cousins and...
Live and in 3-D
Knights of Columbus help the Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic obtain a 3-D sonogram machine by Kara Hansen KANSAS CITY, Kan. — It was only a matter of time before the sonogram machine at Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic here broke...
New group supports Catholics in the workplace
They saw the need for a Catholic business group. But they had no idea how great that need was.
‘There’s a love and tradition here that you cannot buy’
“Heaven,” he’d say. “After all, there’s no place better than Olpe, right?”
Local Catholics support vocations overseas
With financial help and spiritual support from parishioners at Curé of Ars Parish in Leawood, Father Shahzad is realizing his dream of a new, larger seminary with enough space to accommodate 45-50 seminarians.
From Kansas to Haiti . . . Connecting with Haitian youth, one kick at a time
This fall, the Haitian youngsters will be able to play like champions, thanks to a gift of soccer balls from the graduates of Holy Spirit School in Overland Park.