Diocese of Wichita
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
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
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
St. Louis snowstorms helped superintendent to be a bit more prepared for the pandemic
Janet Eaton couldn’t have known that the winters she experienced as a principal in a St. Louis area Catholic school would prepare her for a future pandemic. “In the school… Read More
Bishop: Easter changed human destiny
Human destiny was forever changed because of Jesus’ resurrection, Bishop Carl A. Kemme said in his Easter morning homily streamed from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Wichita. “No… Read More
Bishop expresses hope of reunification at Chrism Mass
What is the Chrism Mass? During the Chrism Mass, the bishop blesses three oils: the oil of catechumens (oleum catechumenorum or oleum sanctorum), the oil of the infirm… Read More