Chris Riggs's Posts
Three to be ordained to the priesthood
Ordinations are ticketed events To limit the size of the ordinations because of pandemic regulations, the ordinations will be open only to those who have received tickets. For details regarding… Read More
Our Daily Bread food pantry goes drive-thru
Want to help the pantry? If you wish to donate to Our Daily Bread, visit Give.CatholicCharitiesWichita.org/hungry2helpict or call 316-264-8344, ext. 1262. Catholic Charities’ food pantry, located at 2825 S. Hillside… Read More
Catholic high school seniors will be graduated at the end of July
Graduation dates set Here are the graduation dates for the four Catholic high schools. Bishop Carl A. Kemme is scheduled to attend all of them. July 19, 2 p.m.: Trinity… Read More
Totus Tuus, Prayer & Action canceled for 2020
The summer youth catechetical program Totus Tuus and the Prayer & Action youth program have been canceled for 2020. They were both victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. Anthony Keiser, director… Read More
Five to be ordained to the diaconate
Five seminarians studying for the Diocese of Wichita will be ordained to the transitional diaconate by Bishop Carl A. Kemme at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 21, at Church of the… Read More
Cathedral’s Pieta corner now complete
Those unable to visit the Vatican to see Michaelangelo’s Pieta can venerate a duplicate of one of the finest sculptures in the world in the Gathering Space of the… Read More
The Lord’s Diner blessed with beef
Ark City company sharing its bounty during the pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in challenges for The Lord’s Diner, the diocesan ministry to the hungry, but it has also… Read More
Father Scheier passes away April 16
The funeral Mass was live-streamed and is recorded here: Youtube channel Father Steven Scheier spent the last years of his life in some seclusion, Bishop Carl A. Kemme said in… Read More
Bishop Kemme: Rejoice and live in Christ’s peace
The apostles in Divine Mercy Sunday’s gospel were afraid and paralyzed with fear, Bishop Carl A. Kemme said in a homily streamed from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception… Read More
St. Pat’s feeding hungry home-bound minds
St. Patrick School in Wichita isn’t forgetting that students need fuel to study – even when they’re stuck at home because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kitchen workers and other hourly… Read More
BCCHS instructors learning new ways to educate
Vanessa Harshberger didn’t notice the din of hundreds of students moving about and chatting in the halls of Bishop Carroll Catholic High School earlier in the school year, but the… Read More
St. Thomas Aquinas’ principal will end the year, her career in a darkened, quiet school
The shelter at home order is particularly difficult for Principal Mary Sweet. At the end of the school year – whenever that is – she will step down from her… Read More