Moira Cullings

Deacon Marcos Navarro talks with a group of men at the Lansing Correctional Facility during a 2023 visit in which Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann celebrated the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and first Communion. Deacon Navarro will be the spiritual director of a Kolbe Prison Ministries retreat at the facility from June 14-16. Volunteers are needed. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Corpus Christi School, Lawrence, fifth graders (from left) Brynna Whitmore, Aurora Harper, Claire Miller and Emery Bailey with teacher Humbelina Harper study the color and opacity of the sky. They earned the chance to present their scientific research project to a group of NASA and national STEM scientists at the Southwest Student Symposium from May 3-4 in Fort Worth, Texas. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Clare Coleman partakes in a Parables and Pubs event at Brew Lab in downtown Overland Park. The group, which typically meets on the second Monday of the month, brings together young adults for an evening of fellowship and meaningful conversations. PHOTO BY JOE CONRAD

High school students and other participants in the 34th annual Rosemary Maher Saints Walk for Life walk from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park to the Olathe Pregnancy Clinic. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Staci Hadel, a second grade teacher at St. Ann School in Prairie Village, is cheered on by her husband Ben and the entire school community as she’s surprised by the news that she was selected for a Herzog Foundation Teacher of the Year award following an all-school Mass at the parish church on May 1. She was one of 12 K-12 teachers chosen for the award out of 865 who were nominated. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Benedictine Sister Suzanne Fitzmaurice, left, of the independent review board, meets with Declan Lowney, investigator/auditor, and Jenifer Valenti, director of the archdiocesan office for protection and care. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

A portrait of Chaplain H.L. Reader, 110th Reg. Engineers, 35th Division, is one of many items that are on display at the “Sacred Service” exhibition inside the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann blesses the new Fiat Center at Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish in Overland Park following a Mass at the church on June 9. The handicap-accessible center is now home to the pastor’s and receptionist’s offices, as well as three meeting spaces equipped with modern audiovisual equipment. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Kyle Kuckelman is the new consultant for youth ministry in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. He has been a youth minister at Sacred Heart Parish in Shawnee and at Prince of Peace Parish in Olathe. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann smiles for a selfie following the African Mass. It was the fifth meeting of its kind for the Dagara tribe and the first Mass celebrated for the group by a bishop. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER