Emily Schmall

3 weeks ago | agweek.com | Emily Schmall

WICHITA, Kansas, May 14 (Reuters) — Crop scouts on Wednesday, the second day of an annual three-day tour of Kansas, projected an average yield for hard red winter wheat in the southwestern portion of the state at 53.3 bushels per acre, up from 42.4 bpa in 2024. The Wheat Quality Council tour's five-year average for the same area from 2019-2024 was 42.3 bushels per acre. No tour was held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 weeks ago | japantimes.co.jp | Emily Schmall |Tom Polansek |Christopher Walljasper

The old parish church buildings on Chicago's far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair, a victim of the sometimes painful changes within the Roman Catholic Church since he was a boy. Even so, the derelict structures stand as a silent reminder to the new pontiff's deep, longstanding ties to the city and the second-largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States.

4 weeks ago | my957.com | Emily Schmall |Tom Polansek |Christopher Walljasper

By Emily Schmall, Tom Polansek and Christopher WalljasperCHICAGO (Reuters) – The old parish church buildings on Chicago’s far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair, a victim of the sometimes painful changes within the Roman Catholic Church since he was a boy.

4 weeks ago | wkzo.com | Emily Schmall |Tom Polansek |Christopher Walljasper

By Emily Schmall, Tom Polansek and Christopher WalljasperCHICAGO (Reuters) – The old parish church buildings on Chicago’s far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair, a victim of the sometimes painful changes within the Roman Catholic Church since he was a boy.

4 weeks ago | kfgo.com | Emily Schmall |Tom Polansek |Christopher Walljasper

By Emily Schmall, Tom Polansek and Christopher WalljasperCHICAGO (Reuters) – The old parish church buildings on Chicago’s far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair, a victim of the sometimes painful changes within the Roman Catholic Church since he was a boy.