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Title: Biography of Father Bernard Donnelly (circa 1800-1880), Roman Catholic Priest
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Obituary for Ernest Joseph Fiedler (Bud)
Description: Rev. Msgr. Fiedler died December 28, 2007. Msgr. Fiedler served in various postings including the Sacred Heart Parish, Kansas City, Missouri; Saint Mary Parish, Independence, Missouri; Saint Peter Parish in Kanss City; and as rector of Kansas City's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception until he retired in July 2005 with continued residence at the Cathedral and the title of Rector Emeritus. He was born October 19, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri.
Date: 2008-01-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: St. Paul's Announces New Church Rector
Description: The Rev. R. Stan Runnels has been called as the new rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Fr. Runnels is a graduate of Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School and the University of the South. Article also contains brief history of St. Paul's parish in Westport.
Date: 2006-03-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Priest Crafts Himself Vocation
Description: The Rev. Patrick Power (Paddy) crafts coffins and other fine woodwork in the basement of the Redemptorist Church rectory. The proceeds from sales go to support children suffering from AIDS, TB and other diseases at Sarnelli House in Thailand.
Date: 2006-06-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Rev. Robert Lakas, 57, Dies
Description: Photo and obituary for Reverend Robert Lakas, "a Catholic priest who also was English professor at Rockhurst College." Description of his life and career, born in Denver about 1917 and coming to Kansas City about 1955, becoming "well-known in the community as a developer of cultural interests."
Date: 1974-08-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: South Central Business Association Luncheon
Description: Unidentified priest and other attendees at South Central Business Association luncheon.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swanson Remembered as Episcopal Pioneer
Description: Katrina Swanson, daughter of the late Bishop Edward R. Welles II who was at one time bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri, died recently in Maine at the age of 70. She was one of 11 Episcopal women deacons who on July 29, 1974, defied their church and were ordained priests. Her father was one of the bishops who ordained her. She was the fourth generation of her family to enter the ministry. She became an official priest in 1976 when the church approved the ordination of women. Her husband was Rev. George Swanson, also an Episcopal priest.
Date: 2005-09-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC30-12 Reverend Robert R. Lakas, S. J., Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The Rev. Robert R. Lakas was born in 1917. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1935 and taught at Rockhurst College from 1955 until his death in 1974. This collection consists mainly of photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles, programs, and typescripts about Fr. Lakas. There are also nine black and white and two color photographs with accompanying information.
Date: 1965~/1974~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: First Communion Group
Description: Interior, group scene of girls and priest, believed to be a first communion pose. Photograph found in a Notre Dame de Sion yearbook for 1958.
Date: 1958~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: An Interview with Reverend Ramon Gaitan
Description: Interview 11 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded July 27, 1981. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1981-07-27
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: John J. Downey and Others
Description: Monsignor John J. Downey (center) of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, receiving a gift from an unidentified man and woman.
Date: 1953~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Visitation Pastor Sees Vitality Along and South of Brush Creek
Description: Father Patrick Rush, pastor of Visitation Church at 51st and Main Streets, serves also on the Brush Creek Community Partners board. Article has some biographical information about Father Rush and includes a photograph of him.
Date: 2007-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Hispanic ''Animator'' Hopes To Develop Ministry For Archdiocese
Description: Profile of the Rev. Patrick Murphy, newly-appointed archiodiocesan animator for Hispanic ministry for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.
Date: 2003-09-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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

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