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Christ in the City event at the Cathedral

Neighborhood picnic provides friendship and food for the poor

Encountering Friends on the Street

Paul Jarzembowski

Speaker, author shares messages behind the Jubilee Year of Hope

Hope Does Not Disappoint

Deacon Michael Halas

Deacon Halas answers four key questions on serving with humility

Coffee & Conversation

ODonnell

Meet the newest deacon-elect of the Diocese of Gary

William O’Donnell

Kouris

Ordinand feels blessed by God’s mercy

Deacon Alexander Kouris

alatorre

Priest candidate feels confident, ready to begin his ministry

Deacon Ivan Alatorre

Nation & World

Blessed Carlo Acutis sits in front of a computer in a scene from a stop-motion animation Lego-Carlo Acutis film made by three brothers in Limerick County, Ireland, and released in mind-May 2025 on their YouTube channel, Fiontar Floinn. On the wall to left is a blue poster of the last Super Mario Bros video game to be released in the lifetime of Blessed Carlo (1996-2006). (OSV News photo/courtesy Flynn family) Editors: best quality available.

Inspired by millennial soon-to-be-saint, Irish teens created animated Lego-Carlo Acutis film

Brazilian Sister Marizele Isabel Cassiano Rego is seen in an undated photograph. Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral worldwide after a May 28, 2025, video showed them beatboxing and dancing hip hop on Catholic TV -- drawing comparisons to a real-life "Sister Act." (OSV News/courtesy Copiosa Redenção)

Video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing goes viral, boosts interest in their ministry

People gather for a prayer vigil in Boulder, Colo., June 2, 2025, beside a makeshift memorial at the scene of an attack that injured multiple people outside the Boulder County Courthouse. The alleged attacker, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was armed with a homemade flamethrower and threw two Molotov cocktails at the group June 1, burning multiple victims, police said. Witnesses said Soliman yelled, "Free Palestine." (OSV News photo/Mark Makela, Reuters)

Colorado faith leaders express sorrow over attack on rally for release of Hamas hostages