Our #SHINE2025 student speakers are ready to inspire! 🎤 Carmelita Bahamonde-Alvarado ’13 🎤 Aaron Smallwood ’24 They’ll take the stage next Thursday night to share their stories. ✨ Don’t miss it, reserve your spot: donnelly.edu/shine #DonnellyCollege

Archbishop Emeritus Joseph F. Naumann will celebrate a Respect Life Sunday Mass on Oct. 5 at 9:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Shawnee.

“An Evening of Hope.” That’s the name of the first fundraiser in the history of Cor Christi Catholic Center in Topeka. theleaven.org/cor-christi-ca…

The last time peace activist and social entrepreneur Maoz Inon spoke to his father was at 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 7, 2023, after he posted on the family chat about missiles falling and sounds of war all around them in Netiv Ha’asara. theleaven.org/after-oct-7-at…

Good Shepherd parishioner Jack Carson volunteers with the parish’s Knights of Columbus, landscaping, blood drive, food drive and its mission in Buen Pastor, El Salvador. theleaven.org/jack-of-all-tr…

Three Xavier Elementary School students might have just graduated from here in May. But they came back this summer to ensure they had left a little bit of themselves behind. theleaven.org/alumni-return-…

No one is addicted to their weather app or banking app. That’s a point Christine Lemmon, a parishioner of Holy Trinity Parish in Lenexa, makes to grab her students’ attention. theleaven.org/lenexa-teacher…

When her son-in-law died, he left behind four children — Michael, 13; Jason, 11; Genevieve, 9; and Alaina, 7. “I will raise them, of course,” said Lynch at the time, “as my daughter would have wanted.” theleaven.org/catholics-reac…

It is probably not often that people tend to think of saints like musicians. But that is the analogy used by author Woodeene Koenig-Bricker in discussing her book “Praying with the Saints.” theleaven.org/praying-with-t…

Saint Thomas Aquinas High School Student Council recently volunteered to sort food at our Hope Distribution Center (HDC) food warehouse. We are grateful for this school, and look forward to partnering with them again later this month during their annual canned food drive!

.Archbishop Shawn McKnight announces the appointment of the archdiocesan synodal team: the Very Reverend Michael Hawken, Vicar General, Helen Osman, Coordinator, Denise Mills, and Deacon Jim Mullin. See the decree below for details. theleaven.org/decree-of-appo…

Archbishop Emeritus Joseph F. Naumann will celebrate the annual Mass of Innocents on Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. at Holy Spirit Church here. All are invited to attend. theleaven.org/mass-of-innoce…

Court documents show that a New Jersey man arrested Oct. 5 outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral just hours before the start of the annual Red Mass had a "fully functional" arsenal of explosives that he threatened to detonate. theleaven.org/man-arrested-o…

Working through the heartbreak of losing her newborn son, Nicole Lauer chose to memorialize him by creating a fund to provide headstones for other infants who have died. theleaven.org/fund-provides-…

CatholicCharitiesKS will be offering the Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE) at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Leawood on October 25 from 9:00AM–12:00PM. Anyone 18+ is invited to register and participate. Pre-registration is required. Reserve your spot here: ow.ly/nTuL50X0oVS.

Five minutes is all it takes to complete an online survey to help inform the strategic planning process underway for Prairie Star Ranch here. And all are welcome! theleaven.org/prairie-star-i…

Greeting a pilgrimage of labor union leaders from Chicago, Pope Leo XIV thanked them for helping “to create a society where all can flourish.” theleaven.org/pope-meets-pil…

In the choir loft. Under the choir loft. In the sacristy. In the rectory’s laundry room. In the rectory library. On the back porch. theleaven.org/parish-celebra…

“Families go into it thinking they’re going to help the child, but that child ends up helping them grow in holiness,” said Kathy White, foster care coordinator for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. theleaven.org/fostering-fami…

Ascension School in Overland Park held its fourth annual schoolwide Eagle Serve Day on Sept. 26. Students in preschool through eighth grade participated in a variety of service projects to benefit Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas. theleaven.org/eagles-soar-as…