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Caption: A group of nearly 20 diocesan faithful taking part in the rosary/prayer vigil on the eve of the execution of Benjamin Donnie Ritchie in May 2025 at Indiana State Prison. (Deacon Bob Wellinski photo)

Faithful invited to attend prayer vigil for anticipated state execution

Praying for an End to the Death Penalty

Members of the Filipino Ministry Team gathered for a photo on the day it was formed.. Pictured are Crescencio “Boboy” Doma, Maureen Germany, Dr. Claudia Sadowski, Leonora Bujna and Evelyn Banzon. The same day the group was also presented the Filipino Catholic History and Mission to Dr. Claudia Sadowski, and met with the intercultural ministry team afterwards. (Provided photo)

Faithful parishioners prepare to celebrate first Filipino Mass

New monthly Mass beings this month

Father Rick Holy, St. Edward, Lowell, pastor, delivers a presentation in the chapel of Our Lady of Mercy on the campus of the Carmelite Fathers Monastery in Munster on Sept. 25. At the St. Thomas More parish Society of the Holy Name meeting, Father Holy quoted Scripture, saints and the recent diocesan Disciple Maker Index data to paint a picture of a Church whose obligation is to evangelize more. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Holy Name group inspired by evangelism talk

What's in a Name?

St. Stanislaus Kostka

St. Stanislaus Kostka prepares to celebrate feast days during October

Relics, Prayer and Veneration

Walk for the Poor 2025

Annual SVDP event promotes awareness of ministry in the diocese

Friends of the Poor Walk

Diaconate candidate Bruce Garwood receives the book of Sacred Scripture as his is instituted as lector by Bishop Robert J. McClory with Father Marty Dobrzynski looks on. Four other men were instituted during the Deacon Jubilee Mass and Institution to the Ministry of Lector on Sept. 18 at St. James the Less. (Deacon Bob Wellinski photo)

Liturgy celebrates 14 diaconate jubilee anniversaries, 5 candidates instituted lectors

The Center of Everything is Love

Nation & World

Pilgrim prays in Lourdes, France, as part of the Oct. 2-4, 2025, "Rosary Pilgrimage," organized by the Dominican order since 1908. The Marian shrine of Lourdes welcomed a record number of participants this year -- 17,000 pilgrims were present, 2,000 more than in 2024. (OSV News photo/courtesy Lourdes shrine)

Rosary Pilgrimage to Lourdes, with record turnout, highlights brotherhood, martyrs of Algeria

A Palestinian child stands between tents Oct. 6, 2025, where displaced Palestinians, who fled northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, shelter in the central Gaza Strip. (OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters)

Cardinal Pizzaballa welcomes ceasefire talks as first step, urges prayer, perseverance

Father Alejandro López Cardinale, pastor of St. Benedict Parish in Somerville, Mass., processes into Mass during the meeting of the U.S. National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry in Rome in conjunction with the Jubilee for Migrants Oct. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Walking with migrants in the US: Pilgrims see, want to be signs of hope