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Father Jacob McDaniel presents on the topic of "“Being Before Doing: Freedom from Activism in Ministry” at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs South Campus in Merrillville on Sept. 19 as part of the Saturday formation program. Saturday formation events are designed for Lay Ecclesial Ministry (LEM) students and are open to all involved in parish ministry activities to provide sessions on various topics connected to living as missionary disciples. (Cecilia Cicone photo)

Saturday formation brings leaders together to grow as missionary disciples

Freedom from Activism in Ministry

Ss. Monica & Luke Soup Kitchen

Ss. Monica and Luke Soup Kitchen closes, hot meals continue at St. Joseph the Worker

Serving the Community

Rosemary Wojdyla (left), a 1973 graduate of Calumet College of St. Joseph, shows her senior class yearbook to Linda Kalwinski, who wanted to look up her husband, Mark Kalwinski, also a CCSJ alumna, during the Whiting school’s 75th Birthday Bash on Sept. 19. Hundreds of students, alumni, faculty, staff and their families attended. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Catholic college celebrates with Mass, tours, history and party

75 Years of Grit and Gratitude

VU talk on AI

Valparaiso community engages in public conversation on Magnifica Humanitas

AI & The Human Future

All ages of women are participating in the new, nine-week program, “She Shall Be Called Woman” that began on Sept. 14 at St. John the Evangelist in St. John. Among the young adults who shared snacks and fellowship before the first video and small group discussion are (from left) Regina Puch of St. John, her sibling Mary Rose Gianotti of Beecher, Ill. and Yesenia Lopez of Lansing, Ill. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

New spiritual series views women as God’s ‘Masterpieces of Creation’

'She Shall Be Called Women'

Mike Montgomery of the Serra Club talks with nonagenarian Sister Kathleen Quinn of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ during the annual luncheon hosted by the club for Diocese of Gary religious sisters. The meal, along with games, prizes and gift bags, was held at St. Bridget in Hobart on Sept. 12. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Serra Club hosts religious sisters for afternoon of lunch and games

Honoring Their Service

Nation & World

Father Adrian Mantykiewicz, still bearing bandages and bruises from the Sept. 24, 2026, knife attack at the Benedictine sisters' abbey in Jaroslaw, Poland, celebrates Mass Sept. 26 and delivers a message of forgiveness, praying for the attacker and urging respect and solidarity between Poles and Ukrainians. (OSV News screenshot/courtesy Radio Fara)

Polish priest wounded in stabbing returns to altar with message of forgiveness

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., consecrates the University of Notre Dame for the first time to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Sept. 25, 2026, following an evening Mass in Notre Dame, Ind. The faithful processed with the Eucharist to a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the center of the campus for a prayer of consecration, where the bishop and university leaders prayed for an end to divisions and strength to love selflessly like Jesus. (OSV News photo/Michael Caterina, University of N

Notre Dame consecrated to the Sacred Heart for first time thanks to student-led initiative

Pope Leo XIV leads a candlelight procession at Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes during his four-day apostolic journey to France, in Lourdes, France, Sept. 27, 2026. (OSV News photo/Stephane Mahe, Reuters)

Pope Leo XIV leads thousands in candlelight rosary procession in Lourdes