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It’s true, Carole Pracht was not playing the organ on the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1980.  Had a doctor’s note been necessary, she presumably could have brought the birth… Read More

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

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

Editor’s Note: The Fall of Saigon in spring 1975 ended the Vietnam War, and 50 years later, the Diocese of Wichita has become home to numerous Vietnamese Catholics who fled… Read More

By Joe Buchanan Parishioners at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Council Grove celebrated a return to their newly renovated church for Mass, followed by an indoor parish picnic… Read More

At points throughout his roughly two decades in the position, which stretched from the early 1980s until shortly after the turn of the millennium, Diocese of Wichita Bishop Eugene Gerber… Read More

Jake Samour is excited to offer new perspective on a saint. Samour, who directs the Diocese of Wichita’s Office of Marriage and Family Life will Present “St. Oscar Romero: Our… Read More

How Vanessa Banh came to the United States, experienced snow and tornadoes, and eventually pursued a fuller spiritual life Vanessa Banh had learned – the hard way – not to… Read More

Vatican City (CNS) – Centuries of experience dealing with the death, or occasional resignation, of a pope has left the Catholic Church with thorough instructions on who has responsibility for… Read More

By Christopher M. Riggs The faithful of the Diocese of Wichita sent soldiers and nurses to Europe during World War II. After the war, they sent tons of food and… Read More