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Cause for Sainthood
Voss tells CAB about trailblazing saint

St. Omobono of Cremona was a stranger when Paul John Voss – a lifelong Catholic with a keen interest in the saints – encountered the patron saint of business leaders… Read More

Pilgrims in Peoria

It’s a spiritual retreat; it’s a team-building exercise; it’s a pilgrimage. Each spring at the St. Pius X Catholic Student Center on the campus of Pittsburg State University, students apply… Read More

New book recounts Fr. Kapaun’s story for young audience

Spreading knowledge about, appreciation of, and devotion to Venerable Emil Kapaun has gotten a little easier and kid-friendlier. That is because a couple of weeks ago, the Catholic Diocese of… Read More

Holy Family leads Dr. Ron Ferris as he leads Holy Family Medical

Young Ron Ferris was a student at Benedictine College in Atchison during the early 1990s when he fell in with the right crowd. Before he knew it, he was a… Read More

Mass at KMC follows in bootsteps of its namesake

Although it had been dark, dank, and a bit chilly 24 hours earlier, the weather cooperated at Wichita’s Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School on the morning of Wednesday, Oct.… Read More

Famous Jeep Mass photo turns 75

By Scott Carter Seventy-Five years ago this month, Col. Raymond Skeehan, then a Major, was absorbed in Mass, pondering everything he and the men of the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division… Read More

Pope deems Fr. Emil Kapaun ‘Venerable’

That’s Venerable Emil Kapaun to you – and all his friends. That’s because Pope Francis, though hospitalized with pneumonia, elevated Fr. Kapaun to that official status on the night of… Read More