Venerable Emil Kapaun

Between Pilsen, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School, the Diocese of Wichita sees a number of pilgrims wishing to encounter Venerable Emil Kapaun. Few,… Read More

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

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

As she looked back on the 25th Midwest Catholic Family Conference, where about 2,500 people assembled during the weekend of Aug. 1-3 at Wichita’s Century II Convention Center and the… Read More

The Diocese of Wichita has long dreamed of owning a space where families and young people can step away from the distractions of everyday life and encounter Christ in the… Read More

By Tom EngellandThe idea was inspired by seminarian Deacon Nicholas Samsel, who spent his summer as a deacon in Rice County. He thought a pilgrimage for the men and young… Read More

Editor’s Note: This is the conclusion of a two-part series. Part one appeared in the March 7 edition of “The Catholic Advance.” With some Fr. Kapaun Pilgrimages already under his… Read More

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

What if she made the Fr. Kapaun Pilgrimage and offered it for the conversion of her husband, Flint? The idea surfaced as Mary Stearns watched yet another video about the… Read More