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Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby from the popemobile before an audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 31, 2025, for the Jubilee of the World of Education. On the eve of the 2026 March for Life in Washington Jan. 22, Pope Leo issued a message to participants, expressing his deep gratitude for their "eloquent public witness" and imparting his apostolic blessing. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo sends 'warm greetings,' apostolic blessing to March for Life participants

St Michael Schererville

Parishes and schools ready to host events during NFL championship weekend

A 'SUPER' Weekend

Tom Hocker of Tree of Life Imports displays crosses, stoles and tote bags that he imports from El Salvador and Guatemala as part of his fair trade business. All are handmade and embroidered by local artisans. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Import business supports fair trade and fosters mutual respect

Social Justice Teaching

Bishop Noll Institute senior Kimberly Padilla, of Hammond, received the QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship, a full four-year scholarship to attend Middlebury College.

Noll senior awarded full scholarship to top-tier college

Fulfilling a New Dream

Homelessness, housing issues in the spotlight at the Statehouse

Housing and Homelessness Legislation

Sister Virginia Kampwerth PHJC

Sister remembered for love of education and the German language

Sister Virginia Kampwerth PHJC (1942-2026)

Nation & World

Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, the longtime personal secretary of St. John Paul II is seen in a 2018 file photo. Cardinal Dziwisz celebrated the Jan. 17, 2026, funeral Mass for Angelo Gugel, the pontifical butler and witness to modern papal history, who stood silently behind St. John Paul for nearly three decades and contributed to saving the pope on the day of the assasination attempt in 1981. Gugel died Jan. 14 at age 90. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

A silent life behind three popes: Farewell to Angelo Gugel, the iconic papal butler

Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pa., speaks at The Catholic University of America in Washington in this Nov. 7, 2019, file photo. He is chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the Catholic co-chair of the Holy See's International Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue committee, part of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Bishop Bambera: Christian unity is 'vital' and 'not an add-on'

An attendee holds a poster during the 52nd annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

'Life Is a Gift': How to embrace the March for Life's 2026 theme