Fr. Andrew Auer, Fr. Anthony Yates and Fr. John Schneier watched as the water balloon they launched with a slingshot narrowly misses the oblivious seminarian in the distance between rounds of the Water Olympics Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri
Allen Boedeker, 66, blessed Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski following his ordination Saturday, May 27, 2023, at Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. Boedeker was married for 38 years until his wife Mary Boedeker died in 2019 and raised five children prior to returning to the seminary.
Lola Hope, 8, left, and Olivia Lamond, 8, work at their virtual learning stations during Laura Knoesel's second grade class at Paxton Keeley Elementary School on March 25, 2021 at the Lamonds' home in Columbia. Colleen Lamond is keeping her children in virtual classes for the remainder of the semester to maintain their routines.
Rodrigo Canto of Our Lady of Fatima in Newark, New Jersey cleans marble and mosaics of the baldacchino Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in St. Louis, Missouri.
Jack Dahlstrand of Corpus Christi and Blake Wilken of St. Michael the Archangel react to the large root beer floats Thursday, June 15, 2023, at Fitz's Root Beer in St. Louis, Missouri.
Father Raymond Buehler, the pastor at Assumption-Mattese, led a rosary motorcycle ride southbound down Interstate 55 Saturday, May 20, 2023, near Arnold, Missouri.
Seminarian Andrew Belarde took a selfie with campers and counselors at the conclusion of camp Saturday, June 17, 2023, at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri.
Prom as Promised Battle High School seniors Jordan Mayes, left, and Alyssa Simmons in their masks and gowns walk into the entrance to the MU Health Care Pavilion on Saturday April 24, 2021. "We are just very happy that they are getting to have a prom in person because we weren't very sure," said Mayes' mother, Latisha Mayes.
Father Jacob Wessel spoke with Darlene Winch of Sacred Heart in Ozora while grocery shopping Monday, July 3, 2023, at the Country Mart in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
Mary Knippling, the niece of Margaret Eleanor Wilkinson, drove down from South Dakota for a small memorial service on Sunday, April 23, 2023, at Redemptoristine Convent in Liguori, Missouri.
Iryna Nahirna of the St. Mary's Assumption parish, left, placed a traditional Ukrainian flower chaplet called a vinochky on Olga Shulga of the St. Mary's Assumption parish on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at St. Justin Martyr Parish in Sunset Hills, Missouri.
Following the weekly prayers in the book, She Who Shows the Way: Heaven's Messages of Our Turbulent Times, Laura Wahlers of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Cape Girardeau prayed the Stations of the Cross Thursday, May 4, 2023, at Shrine of Our Lady of Grace in Apple Creek, Missouri. Wahlers typically prays at the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace once a week with her friend Michele Beck. "I noticed with the [sound of the waterfall], I can focus more on my prayer," Wahlers said.
Seminarian John Paul Angeli spoke with Jerry Schamel during his Clinical Pastoral Education internship program Tuesday, July 11, 2023, at Mercy Hospital on Ballas in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
Sister Brunetta of the Missionaries of Charity kisses the hands of Fr. Josehua Deters after his blessing following his ordination into the priesthood Saturday, May 27, 2023, at Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis, Missouri.
Director Chrissy Ford, right calms Ness Bennaroch, a sophomore exchange student from France, backstage seven minutes before the final production of Les Misérables March 4 at Ferndale High School in Ferndale, WA.