by Katie Yoder

“He’s been around me in one way or another my whole life,” the 37-year-old from Colwich, Kansas, told OSV News. “And I never knew it.”

by Junno Arocho Esteves

The basilica’s cornerstone was laid in 1882 during Pope Leo XIII’s pontificate, and now his namesake will inaugurate the 564-foot-tall Tower of Jesus Christ.