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Seven Churches Visitation: Lenten tradition invites faithful to spend time in prayer and adoration

Enjoying fellowship and some delicious soup at the Soup and Bread Social on April 2 at Holy Name of Jesus in Cedar Lake are St. John residents (from left) Denise Webb and her son Alex Webb, parishioners, and Tyler Rybicki and his father, Dave Rybicki, parishioners at St. Thomas More in Munster. The simple meal was followed by the fourth and final parish renewal session on gratitude, which the young men attended as a Generations of Faith confirmation class assignment at Holy Name. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Franciscan offers five ways to express gratitude in daily life

Father Robert Ross, associate pastor of St. Michael the Archangel church, views instruments of punishment associated with the passion of Jesus Christ, on March 31 at the Schererville parish. Father Ross and his dad Tom Ross will deliver a presentation about the Shroud of Turin, the linen many believe to be the Lord's burial cloth, at the parish on Easter Monday, April 21. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Presentation to explore observations about Shroud of Turin

Father Ciesla with relic

Michigan City parishes to host Lenten devotion on seven last words of Christ

Father Paul Quanz, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows, points to details of unidentified artwork set in the nave of the Our Lady of Sorrows church in Valparaiso on March 20. The artwork at the circa 1958 church was created by the late Slovak artist, architect and author Jozef Cincik, who was commissioned by Franciscans who resided at the former Seven Dolors Shrine. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Our Lady of Sorrows church features works of famed artist

"The cardinal virtues of the Catholic Church are prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance," outlibned Sean Martin, coordinator of Catechesis and Faith Formation for the Diocese of Gary, at a Catechist Formation Woikshop on March 18 at the Pastoral Center in Merrillville. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Workshop teaches catechists how to live a Life in Christ

Nation & World

A man is pictured in a file photo running up the stairs of St. Mary's Church before Mass in Tohatchi, N.M. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

10 reasons to come back to the Catholic Church

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is seen in this 2011 file photo. The disgraced former cardinal, removed from the clerical state in 2019 after revelations of credible allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct with adults, died April 3, 2025, in Missouri. He was 94. (OSV News photo/Morteza Nikoubazl, Reuters)

Disgraced former cardinal McCarrick dies at 94

Volunteers instruct tourists and pilgrims on emergency resuscitation in Rome's Piazza del Risorgimento outside the Vatican during the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers April 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Tourists, pilgrims, religious learn CPR during Jubilee of the Sick