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Father Ivan Alatorre blesses Rosaries following the Mass for Migrant Workers at Garwood Orchards on July 12. (Michael Wellinski photo)

Mass for Migrant Farm Workers brings the Church and community to migrant workers

'That Meal Didn't Magically Appear'

Roberto Martinez (left) of St. Mary in East Chicago offers comments on a scripture passage from the Book of Matthew, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike,” during a small group discussion with Javier Carrillo, of Nativity of Our Savior in Portage, and others at the July 17 meeting of the Hearts Aflame Yong Adults group at St. Mary. Just over a year old, Hearts Aflame boasts 84

Young adults from throughout diocese share faith and fellowship

Fired Up For Jesus

The Media Team for the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, including Zach Dotson of Hammond, answers questions during a press conference at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington D.C. (Provided photo)

Local perpetual pilgrimage returns to diocese after participating in 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

Iron Sharpens Iron

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

Roxanne Franko teaches a fourth-grade religious education class at Our Lady of Grace in Highland. The parish serves about 65 youths from 25 families during the school year. (Provided photo)

Religious education classes help parents teach children the Catholic faith

Learning the Faith

Cathedral of the Holy Angels

Tuckpointing and restorative work continues at Holy Angels

Cathedral Receives Needed Maintanence

Nation & World

Andrea Bocelli performs during the World Meeting on Human Fraternity in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 10, 2023. Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV with a choir of 160 children from the Holy Land, Uganda and Italy in the Vatican Gardens in Castel Gandolfo on July 29, 2026, in a special performance organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Andrea Bocelli to sing for Pope Leo with international children's choir

Pope Leo XIV greets a participant in an international conference on the pastoral care of the elderly organized by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life at the Vatican Oct. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

5 takeaways from Pope Leo's message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

Source of All Hope missionaries Erin Kelter, left, and Daniel Otto, right, pray with Keith Quigg, a man experiencing homelessness, at the corner of Greene and West Lombard streets in Baltimore April 14, 2026. (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)

Young Catholic missionaries bring hope to Baltimore's homeless population