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Father Franciszek Czaicki (right), OCD, unwraps an unearthed package as Father Andrzej Gbur (back), OCD, looks on at the opening of a 50-year time capsule on July 12 at the Carmelite Monastery in Munster. Well-preserved artifacts such as photos, papers and coins were discovered in the steel case, originally buried on the nation’s bicentennial in 1976. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Carmelites open bicentennial time capsule at Munster monastery

Unearthing History

Diocese of Gary receives Enduring Partnership Award at Lindenwood.

Lindenwood honors diocese with Enduring Partnership Award

A Welcoming Sanctuary

“When you meet (after Mass) for coffee and doughnuts, what do you talk about?” Father Jerry Schweitzer asked parish leaders meeting with him on July 11 for a Coffee and Conversation session on “Hospitality for Those 50+ in Your Parish” at the Diocese of Gary’s Pastoral Center in Merrillville. “Do we pass on to others (what we talk about) during the week, because that’s what we are supposed to do,” he advised a gathering of close to 50 people. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Parish leaders reminded that hospitality is important to evangelization for all ages

Coffee and Conversation

Andrean classroom

Andrean announces school year will start as scheduled

Campus Update

Cathedral of the Holy Angels

Tuckpointing and restorative work continues at Holy Angels

Cathedral Receives Needed Maintanence

jubilarians

Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ celebrate milestones in ministry

2026 Jubilarians

Nation & World

Place one of Western civilization's foundational texts in the hands of one of the entertainment industry's greatest living auteurs and the results are likely to be impressive. And so it proves with "The Odyssey" (Universal), writer-director Christopher Nolan's lavish and absorbing adaptation of Homer's epic poem.

Move Review: The Odyssey

A file photo shows a replica of the famed Porziuncola chapel in Assisi, Italy, inside San Francisco's National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. (OSV News photo/Dan Morris-Young, Catholic San Francisco)

Can't go to Assisi? Visit a US replica of the tiny church where St. Francis founded order

Akram Al-Fayoumi, 13, who lost his right foot and left hand after an Israeli strike on the Abdel Fattah Hamouda school, plays in a street in Gaza May 13, 2026. (OSV News photo/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)

For Gaza Christians, World Cup final offers brief respite from horrors of war