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Palm Sunday

Diocese ready to commemorate the final days of Jesus' life

Holy Week 2026

Our lady of Guadalupe Statue in Gary

Historic statue finds a new home in Gary

Entering a new era

Zosia Podczerwinski (left) and her sister-in-law Stasia Podczerwinski start preparations for the catered Easter Sunday meals under the watchful eye of Father Irek Bem in the kitchen at the Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Merrillville. Orders for the meals, 10 and up, must be made by April 1. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Shrine’s catering team prepares Easter dinners for local families

Polish Food Featured

Father Roque Meraz, associate pastor at St. Paul in Valparaiso, explains the principles of Catholic Social Teaching in relation to civil laws during the Saturday Formation program on “Faith and Politics” at the Pastoral Center in Merrillville on March 21. He taught Spanish speakers while Father Jacob McDaniel simultaneously met with English-speaking attendees on the same topic. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Catholic Church sticks to discussing principles, not candidates

Faith and Politics

Mexico Trip 2025

Diocesan pilgrims ready to return to Mexico

More Than a Trip, It's a Mission

John Juscik

Man spreads faith through handmade crosses

A Symbol of God's Love

Nation & World

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, sits in the Church of All Nations March 29, 2026, at a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday, following the cancellation of the traditional Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives, amid restrictions on gathering in large groups and the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Jerusalem. (OSV News photo/Ammar Awad, via Reuters)

Israel to allow Church leaders to celebrate Holy Week, Easter at holy sites, Latin patriarchate says

Wyatt and Andrea Artz, are pictured in an undated photo with their three children Roselyn, Adeline and Catherine outside their home in Gann Valley, S.D. As a fourth grader, Andrea Artz remembers praying that she would experience a Eucharistic miracle one day. She never imagined that, years later, she might witness one with her newborn daughter Catherine. (OSV News photo/courtesy Artz family)

After Eucharistic encounter, dying baby is thriving one year later

Fulton Sheen

Sept. 24 beatification of Archbishop Sheen to be 'a moment of immense grace'