Bishop Carl Kemme

Bishop Kemme issues Lenten encouragement

Bishop Carl A. Kemme talks about how delighted he is regarding how the faithful are embracing the Year of St. Joseph in a video now available at YouTube.com/DioceseOfWichita. “So many… Read More

Bishop: study in the ‘School of Nazareth’ this Lent

Bishop Carl A. Kemme reflected on Lent as part of the Year of St. Joseph in his Ash Wednesday homily delivered in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The two… Read More

Bishop Kemme: ‘go to Nazareth’ this Lent

Bishop Carl A. Kemme reflected on Lent as part of the Year of St. Joseph in his Ash Wednesday homily delivered in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The two… Read More

Bishop proclaims diocesan Year of St. Joseph

Bishop Carl A. Kemme invited the faithful of the Diocese of Wichita to join him in intense prayer and frequent fasting in a petition to God to send the Holy… Read More

Bishops issue statement about the creation of vaccines

Bishop Kemme’s comment about the statement As bishop of the Diocese of Wichita, I endorse the joint statement of Archbishop Naumann, chair of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities and Bishop… Read More

The Year of St. Joseph begins Dec. 8

Bishop Kemme hopes St. Joseph will be an example for men, the diocesan family Bishop Carl A. Kemme’s decision to dedicate 2021 to the patronage of St. Joseph has a… Read More

Fr. John Mannion asked that the faithful be evangelized at his funeral

Fr. John Patrick Mannion is evangelizing even after his passing. “Fr. Mannion left very clear instructions concerning his funeral Mass,” Father Patrick York said at the funeral homily Tuesday morning… Read More

Pray because Jesus prayed, bishop explains at service for our country

  We pray because Jesus prayed, Bishop Carl A. Kemme explained at a Prayer for Our Country service Saturday morning, Oct. 24, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in… Read More

Fr. Jerry Beat laid to rest

  Father Jerry Beat was the second priest of the Diocese of Wichita that Bishop Carl A. Kemme met. In the mid-1990s, years before he received that phone call from… Read More

A road taken and traveled together

Bishop Kemme blesses couples at annual Wedding Anniversary Mass Bishop Carl A. Kemme reminded the couples at the annual Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass Sunday, Oct. 11, about Robert Frost’s poem… Read More

Fr. Raymond Joyce lived later years quietly

Father Raymond Joyce lived his later years in the diocese quietly after many years outside of the Diocese of Wichita, Bishop Carl A. Kemme said in a funeral homily Friday,… Read More

Fr. Scalia talks to lawyers, judges about the law

Father Paul D. Scalia’s lapel microphone cut out soon after he began speaking at the Red Mass banquet last week, making it necessary for him to use a hand-held microphone.… Read More