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Moving on to serve the world
It was a heartwrenching sight: Ten Catholic nuns in full habit, standing at a window in the departure area of Kansas City International Airport, weeping and waving.
Column: A new Pentecost for northeast Kansas
"I have come to repeat the urgent call to conversion and the forgiveness of sins, and to implore from the Lord a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the church in this country.”
Column: Answered prayers are not always easily recognized
Long ago, when our granddaughter Beth was in grade school, she was hurt by something a classmate said. Her wounded feelings deflated her usually cheerful approach to life.
Column: What matters is not what we know, but what we do
Sometimes, academic discussion can look too arcane to serve any practical purpose.
Take five, and call me in the morning
A few years ago a man went to his doctor, complaining of constant headaches. The doc examined the man and then asked whether he drank, smoked, got enough rest, or did anything for fun.
Retrouvaille offers hope for hurting marriages
If you’re in a struggling, hurting marriage, Joe and Danette Searle would like to tell you three things.
Come one, come all
The task of a priest — or a bishop — can be stated very simply, according to Archbishop Emeritus James P. Keleher.
Column: Prayer: Our last, best gift to loved ones who have died
The church’s teaching on purgatory has not been given sufficient emphasis in our catechesis in recent years.
150 years young
For the “grand finale” of the 150th jubilee celebration of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Nov. 14, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann took the opportunity to tip his miter to a grand old man who knew a little something about the...