Twice this past week, different friends compared the new reality that has beset our daily life in this time of pandemic to that of a monastery.

The Leap weekend, Feb. 29 and March 1, was especially notable in the Diocese of Kansas City- St. Joseph as 311 men, women and children — 127 catechumens and 184 candidates — entered into preparation for the Sacraments of Initiation, Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist at the Easter Vigil.

By Marty DenzerCatholic Key Associate Editor KANSAS CITY — One after another, the school busses pulled up to the doors of St. Michael the Archangel High School in Lee’s Summit on Feb. 20. Fifth graders from 13 Catholic grade schools from across the diocese, and students from the homeschool community, stepped into the high school […]

Growing up in the late sixties as a child, I would listen to music with my father on our stereo

The annual White Mass for the Healing Professions was held Feb. 15 at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Kansas City.

It’s not everyday that a bishop tells you to ‘be salty’, but it definitely fit the Sunday readings heard at the Mass for World Marriage Day …

Whether old, new or somewhere in between, Catholic Cemeteries are special places

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Megan Marley “The first obligation we have at the beginning of any New Year, at the beginning of this New Year, is to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to God for His abundant love in creating us and all that exists,” said Bishop James Johnston January 25 to the Vietnamese-American community packing the […]

Our Lady of the Presentation School has a lot to be proud of and three of those things were showcased on the last day of Catholic Schools Week, Jan. 31.