Vince Anch is the executive director of the Catholic Education Foundation. by Vince Anch To many people who attend a lot of galas, the Catholic Education Foundation’s Gaudeamus dinner stands out as one of the most unique and...
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Teens, priests, pastoral workers and nun among martyrs beatified in Spain
This is the cover of the Oct. 10, 2021, edition of “Iglesia en Córdoba.” It features relatives of some of the more than 100 victims of Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war who moved a step closer to sainthood after being...
British lawmaker’s death ‘a painful loss in so many lives,’ says cardinal
British lawmaker David Amess, farthest left, poses for a picture with a group that includes Mother Teresa in London’s Parliament in this 1988 photo. Amess was stabbed while meeting constituents in Leigh-on-Sea, England, Oct...
President Biden and Pope Francis scheduled to meet Oct. 29
President Joe Biden and Pope Francis are seen in this composite photo. The White House announced Oct. 14, 20201, that the two will meet at the Vatican Oct. 29. (CNS composite; photos by Jonathan Ernst, Reuters, and Paul Haring)...
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Chicago auxiliary bishop joins cheering section for city’s annual marathon
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert J. Lombardo gives a Chicago marathoner a high five during the 2021 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Oct. 9. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic) by Joyce Duriga CHICAGO (CNS) — The Bank of...
4D imaging brings Respect Life Month mission into focus
Cindy Willich, who works as a sonographer at the Kansas City Pregnancy Clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, retrieves some information while Donna Kelsey, the clinic’s volunteer executive director, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann look...
Parishioners form guild to buy hand-built church organ
Holy Angels Church in Basehor recently purchased a “new” organ, hand built in 1997 by Halbert Gober of Gober Organs. It has 1,317 pipes and is perhaps the only one in North America people can walk through. The organ was blessed...
Organization saves children’s lives in Brazil, Africa
Sister Hadassa, PJC, watches over two children in Pemba, a city in the African nation of Mozambique. P.R.A.Y. — Project Rescue of Amazon Youth — was founded in 1997 and has saved the lives of abandoned, abused and neglected...
Rookie teachers grateful for their Catholic school educations
Isabel Burnett, a math teacher at Ascension School in Overland Park, helps seventh graders Elizabeth Schultz and Mannie Fasching with their classwork. LEAVEN PHOTO BY KATHRYN WHITE by Jan DixonSpecial to The Leaven LEAWOOD — They...