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Title: Centering Pole
Description: An Episcopal priest, talks about his experiences as curate at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in the 1960s, a time when the Civil Rights movement, the war in Viet Nam and other social changes were transforming the church.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Book

Title: Voice for Victims
Description: Article describes the efforts of SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests), a national organization dedicated to exposing child-abusing priests in the Catholic Church. In recent months, the organization has focused its attention on Kansas City, demanding that Jackson County authorities investigate cleric sex crimes and perceived cover-ups by the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
Date: 2011-09-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Man of God, History and Fishing
Description: Obituary for Reverend Bruce Rahtjen, 77, a longtime Northeast community resident and priest of 56 years. Rahtjen served at Melrose Methodist Church for six years and St. Mary's Episcopal Church for eight years. He also taught at the St. Paul School of Theology and was former president of the Historic Kansas City Foundation and Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association.
Date: 2010-06-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Priest, 98, Was Devoted to Parish
Description: Heliodore Mejak, priest at Holy Family Catholic Church in Kansas City, Kansas, died December 25, 2007, at the age of 98. He came to Holy Family in 1944, "ending perhaps the longest tenure of a priest at a U.S. parish. Monsignor Mejak may also have been the country's oldest active priest, according to the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas." He was ordained in 1935, and during his years in the priesthood, served under seven popes. Holy Family is a Slovenian parish and Mejak "was the last priest in the archdiocese to stop celebrating Mass in Latin in the wake of the Vatican II church reforms approved in the 1960s." He learned the Slovenian language in order to serve the parish.
Date: 2007-12-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: President Jimmy Carter
Description: An unidentified priest speaks at an annual meeting of the National Association of Catholic Charities. President Jimmy Carter, who also gave an addressed, sits on the right. The other individuals on the dais are unidentified.
Date: 1979-10-15
Object Type: Negative

Title: The Best-Kept Secret of the Westside - Part 2: The Shrine and Father Munoz
Description: Article tells the story of The Reverend Jose Munoz, first pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Father Munoz and another priest fled the persecution of the Mexican revolution and arrived in Kansas City in June 1914. After celebrating Mass in various locations, the parish purchased the former Swedish Lutheran Church at the southwest corner of 23rd Street and Madison Avenue and consecrated it on October 5, 1919.
Date: 2007-04-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: First Negro Cleric in Diocese
Description: News article about Dolis Durall, Jr., 24 years old, of 2726 Grove Street, the first Negro to be made a cleric in the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic diocese.
Date: 1968-04-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Watomika: A Delaware Jesuit Priest
Description: Article describing the life of Watomika, later known as Father James Bouchard. Watomika/Bouchard is considered by many to be the first Native American ordained to the Catholic priesthood in the United States. The author writes that Watomika's father, a Delaware named Kistalwa, brought his family to the area between Fort Leavenworth and the Kansas River during the time of the Delaware Indians' relocation from Ohio and Indiana.
Date: 1905-06-27
Object Type: Magazine Article

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