COLORADO SPRINGS. A Catholic bishop, priest and religious sister from Ukraine will visit the Diocese of Colorado Springs in late August to raise awareness of the plight of Ukrainian citizens living through the war with Russia. The visit is being sponsored by Colorado Springs-based Catholic Outreach to Neighbors in Ukraine (CONU), an organization founded by the late Father Paul Wicker in 1994 to help the Catholic Church rebuild in the previously Communist country.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Long before the news of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster’s apparently incorrupt body electrified the Catholic world last April, a local woman was discerning whether to enter the Benedictine monastery she founded in 2006 in Gower, Missouri.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Three members of St. Andrew Kim Parish were honored by Bishop James Golka for their combined 62 years of volunteer service to the parish as catechists and other roles in service to youth of the parish.

COLORADO SPRINGS. In addition to their work in youth and young adult ministry, faith formation and other activities in the diocese, the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco have made themselves available to guide young women who are discerning vocations to religious life or consecrated virginity.

(Editor’s note: On March 31, the Pontifical North American College in Rome, which is the U.S. bishops’ seminary in Rome, announced that Father Jim Baron has been appointed Coordinator of Intellectual Formation effective July 1 and continuing until June 30, 2027. The Herald sat down with Father Baron to find out more about his new role.