About 375 people from all over the Kansas City area — parishioners, parents, students, friends, family and supporters — filled St. Charles Borromeo Church

These are not your ordinary human beings.

Sister Mary Gemma Stump made her first profession of vows as a Dominican Sister

If you ever see a fit-looking someone wearing a blue tee shirt with Jer.1:5 on the back, you’re probably seeing a LIFE Runner.

With glowing eyes, children, teenagers and young adults sat, listening raptly, as a young woman read the story of the journey Mary and Joseph …

Jenifer Valenti said it plainly. As diocesan ombudsman charged with investigating allegations of child sexual abuse committed by clergy and church employees and volunteers, she is not the person to call instead of calling police.

Sometimes, like the elderly Sarah did when told she would bear a son within a year in the first reading for the day from Genesis, the human response is to laugh.