Catholic dating in Kansas
Catholic dating in Kansas: Benedictine Atchison, KU's campus centre, the Latin Mass in Westwood and Maple Hill, a Vietnamese Mass in Wichita, and Victoria.
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In Atchison, above the Missouri River, two Benedictine monasteries stand two miles apart. The monks of St Benedict's Abbey date their founding to 1857; the sisters of Mount St Scholastica came to the town in 1863. Each community built a college, and on 1 July 1971 the two colleges merged into one, Benedictine College. Its patrons, the college writes, are a brother and a sister, Saints Benedict and Scholastica, who were twins.
Students still go to Mass in the abbey church, and the college says the Abbey Lookout over the river has been "the site of many Raven marriage proposals over the years", Ravens being what it calls its own.
Seventeen places are listed below, each with an address and a link to its own page or its diocese's: the abbey and the college, the University of Kansas's Catholic centre, two communities of the traditional Latin Mass, parishes that pray in Spanish and Vietnamese, the Wichita cathedral where Venerable Emil Kapaun is buried, and a basilica on the plains. They are not every parish; they are the places whose pages we could read.
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Catholics in Kansas
Kansas has four dioceses: the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas in the north-east, and the dioceses of Wichita, Salina and Dodge City. The archdiocese, Salina, Dodge City and most Wichita parishes run websites that turned away automated visitors, so the Wichita places here rest on the diocese's own parish directory, which lists the Masses and their languages for every parish, and the west of the state has a single card.
Two communities of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter celebrate only the traditional Latin Mass: St Rose Philippine Duchesne in Westwood, a personal parish of the archdiocese that opened in 2013, and the St John Vianney chaplaincy at Maple Hill, west of Topeka. At Atchison, the college's early Sunday Mass in the abbey's Guadalupe Chapel is in the Extraordinary Form.
From the abbey's, the college's, the dioceses' and the parishes' own pages, opened 24 September 2026
Spanish is heard across the state. Of the ninety-three parishes in the Wichita directory, fourteen list Masses in Spanish and two in Vietnamese. At Blessed Sacrament in Kansas City, Kansas, three of the four weekend Masses are in Spanish.
In Wichita, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception keeps the tomb of Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the diocese and an army chaplain in Korea. His remains were identified in 2021 and brought to the cathedral that year, and in 2025 the Holy See declared him Venerable.
Where the community gathers
The seventeen places fall into four parts of the state: the north-east, the Kansas side of Kansas City, Wichita and the south-east, and the plains.
The north-east
The north-east holds seven: St Benedict's Abbey and Benedictine College in Atchison, the St Lawrence Center and St John the Evangelist in Lawrence, Immaculate Conception in St Marys, the Latin Mass chaplaincy at Maple Hill and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Topeka.
The Kansas side of Kansas City
The Kansas side of Kansas City holds three: St Rose Philippine Duchesne in Westwood, and Blessed Sacrament and Christ the King in Kansas City, Kansas.
Wichita and the south-east
Wichita and the south-east hold six: the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, St Anthony, All Saints, St Anne, St Paul at Wichita State and St Pius X at Pittsburg State.
The plains
The plains hold one: the Basilica of St Fidelis in Victoria.
Meeting places worth knowing
A Benedictine monastery founded in 1857, whose prayer is open to the public, with Sunday Mass at nine, Vespers in the late afternoon and tours of the abbey on request.
1020 North 2nd StreetAtchison
KS 66002
The college of the monks and the sisters, with student Masses in the abbey church on Sunday at eleven and at eight in the evening, and a Rosary at Mary's Grotto every afternoon.
1020 North Second StreetAtchison
KS 66002
The Catholic Church at the University of Kansas since 1958, with Sunday Masses from nine in the morning to nine at night.
1631 Crescent RoadLawrence
KS 66044
A downtown parish served by the Capuchin Franciscans, with a Sunday Mass in Spanish at one.
1234 Kentucky StreetLawrence
KS 66044
A parish of 1848, the oldest in the archdiocese by its own account, which keeps perpetual Adoration and names its Jesuit heritage.
208 West Bertrand AvenueSt Marys
KS 66536
A chaplaincy of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in the country west of Topeka, with a sung Mass and two low Masses on Sunday.
14611B Waterman Crossing RoadMaple Hill
KS 66507
A parish with weekend Masses in English and Spanish and a Spanish Mass on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
201 NE Chandler StreetTopeka
KS 66616
A personal parish of the archdiocese staffed by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, with every Mass in the traditional rite and a sung Mass on Sunday at half past eleven.
5035 Rainbow BoulevardWestwood
KS 66205
A parish where most Masses are in Spanish, with an English Mass on Sunday morning.
2203 Parallel AvenueKansas City
KS 66104
A parish with a Sunday Mass in Spanish at one in the afternoon.
3024 North 53rd StreetKansas City
KS 66104
The cathedral of the Diocese of Wichita, with Masses in English and Spanish and the tomb of Venerable Emil Kapaun; while its domes are restored, check where Mass is being held.
430 North BroadwayWichita
KS 67202
A parish with a Sunday Mass in Vietnamese at eleven and a Vietnamese Mass on the first Wednesday of the month.
1214 East 2nd StreetWichita
KS 67214
A parish whose half past ten Sunday Mass is in Vietnamese, according to the diocesan directory, with an Adoration chapel open from six in the morning to ten at night.
3205 East Grand StreetWichita
KS 67218
A parish with two Sunday Masses in Spanish and a family hour of Adoration.
2801 South SenecaWichita
KS 67217
The parish of Wichita State University, with Sunday evening Masses at seven and nine.
1810 North RooseveltWichita
KS 67208
The Catholic centre at Pittsburg State University, which adds a Mass on Saturdays when the football team plays at home.
301-A East ClevelandPittsburg
KS 66762
"The Cathedral of the Plains", built by Volga German settlers whose families each delivered six wagon loads of stone, finished in 1911 and made a minor basilica in 2014; it is run by the Capuchin friars.
900 Cathedral AvenueVictoria
KS 67671
Some places appear without a card. Mount St Scholastica, the sisters' monastery in Atchison, offers tours by appointment but posts no public Mass. Pilsen, about an hour and a half north-east of Wichita, is where Father Kapaun's faith was first formed and where he served his first years as a priest. K-State's St Isidore's in Manhattan, the cathedrals of Salina and Dodge City and St Peter's Cathedral in Kansas City, Kansas, have websites that refused automated visitors, so we could not read their Masses.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
Atchison is about an hour north-west of Kansas City, Kansas; the college calls itself forty-five miles north of the city. Lawrence and Topeka are about half an hour apart, and Maple Hill is half an hour past Topeka. The two Latin Mass communities, Westwood and Maple Hill, are about an hour and a half apart.
Wichita is around three hours from Kansas City, and Victoria around three hours from Wichita and more than four from Kansas City. Inside Wichita, the parishes on this page are within ten minutes of the cathedral.
Catholic Kansas is long: the north-east is a single evening's drive, Wichita a drive of its own, and the plains a weekend away from both.
On cana.love, where you live and whether you would move are part of the form, so distance is settled before the first message.
The Catholic year in Kansas
Student Mass at the abbey
Benedictine's late Mass in the abbey church, open to anyone who comes.
The Rosary at Mary's Grotto
On the Atchison campus, at ten past five.
A Mass in Vietnamese
St Anthony in Wichita, after the English Mass.
Football and Mass in Pittsburg
At St Pius X, half an hour after a day game, or at four on the day of a night game.
Benediction in Westwood
After the sung Mass at St Rose Philippine Duchesne, in most months.
Tours of the abbey
St Benedict's, at ten in the morning, on request.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Kansas
Vespers with the Atchison monks, a Vietnamese Mass in Wichita, a sung Latin Mass at Maple Hill and a Spanish Mass in Kansas City: Catholics in Kansas pray in many ways. cana.love asks which is yours.
Mass, fasting and Scripture, each asked
The form asks how often you go to Mass, from every week down to seldom, on five steps. Fasting, Scripture and what you hope for from the site are separate questions, and each answer can be public or kept back.
Parish and meaning, in your own words
Your parish and what gives your life meaning are written, not picked: an abbey on the Missouri and a campus centre in Lawrence do not belong in one list.
Spanish is one of five languages
There are five languages on the site: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian.
Checked first, free, no password
A new profile or photo is not shown until it has been checked, by software first and, where needed, by a person. Asking other members for money is against the rules, and fraud ends an account at once and for good. Nothing is charged, nothing renews, and there is no password: you sign in with a one-time link or code sent to your email.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not a Catholic-only platform.
It is also for Orthodox Christians, Protestants and people still finding their church, as long as they want the same kind of marriage, and your settings decide who sees you. The parishes of Kansas pray in Spanish and Vietnamese as well as English, and a site with a closed door would be narrower than they are. What it promises can be checked on any profile: faith, practice and intentions are written there to be read first. The operator is Cana SpA, a company registered in Chile; more is on the About page.
Meeting safely
- Meet the first time by day, somewhere public, with an agreed time to go home: coffee after Mass, a café on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence or in Old Town in Wichita. Let a friend know where you are, and, if the drive home is I-70 or the turnpike at night, when you should be back. Your address can stay private for now.
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Common questions
What is special about Atchison?
Two Benedictine monasteries, the monks founded in 1857 and the sisters who arrived in 1863, whose colleges merged in 1971 into Benedictine College; students still go to Mass in the abbey church.
Where is the traditional Latin Mass?
St Rose Philippine Duchesne in Westwood and the chaplaincy at Maple Hill, both of the Fraternity of St Peter, and the college's early Sunday Mass in the abbey's Guadalupe Chapel.
Who was Father Emil Kapaun?
A Wichita priest and army chaplain in Korea, declared Venerable in 2025, whose tomb is in the Wichita cathedral.
Are there Masses in other languages?
Spanish in Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka and Wichita, and Vietnamese at St Anthony and All Saints in Wichita.
Is there anything for students?
The St Lawrence Center at KU, St Paul at Wichita State, St Pius X at Pittsburg State, and the student Masses at Benedictine College.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Kansas?
Yes, from eighteen, in a browser, with nothing to install.
Next steps
In Atchison, go to the Sunday evening student Mass; in Lawrence or Wichita, ask at the campus parish what is on this week. And to read how someone practises before you meet rather than after, open a free cana.love profile and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.