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

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: Church Group
Description: Group portrait of unidentified men, women, and church officials.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Church Interior Scene
Description: Interior view of unidentified woman at piano with church official nearby.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Church Officials
Description: Informal group portrait of three unidentified church officials.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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