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CYO Girls' Championships

Hard work, teamwork and determination create champions at basketball finals

CYO Girls’ Basketball Championships

“Renewing the Heart of the Servant” was the theme of the spiritual retreat presented by Father Cesar Cajetan Arras, CR, a priest in the Order of Clerics Regular, in the Diocese of Gary on March 15. Here, Father Arras speaks to Spanish-speaking participants while English speakers spent time in adoration to the Holy Eucharist. The two groups gathered at the end to share a potluck dinner. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Ministry leaders urged to serve others with the heart of Jesus

Renewing the Heart of the Servant

Father John Scott

Healing service invites faithful to allow God’s love to restore their heart

Healing & Penitential Prayer Service

St. Mary Crown Point Float

St. Mary prepares to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the city

Community Involvement

Sharing information about Sojourner Truth House and its annual fundraising Walk for STH on Saturday, June 13 with guest Christian Burks (second from left) from Damar Services, Inc. and She’s Still a Rose are (from left) Director of Client Services Dr. Pam Key, Sister Salem Bisong, PHJC and Executive Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Justine Johnson of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. The foursome met on March 9 at one of the regularly scheduled Coffee and Conversation sessions hosted by the Gar

Sojourner Truth House relies on annual walk to fund women’s programs

Offering A Fresh Start

Father McDaniel

Walking through Lent with Intention

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Nation & World

Pope Leo XIV meets with former classmates who graduated from the lower school of St. Mary of the Assumption in Chicago in 1969 after the general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 18, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Childhood classmates from the United States reunite with Pope Leo

An Ethiopian Christian woman prays at the locked doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem March 4, 2026, on day five of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. The church and other religious sites as well as stores were locked shut by order of the Israeli government as Iranian ballistic missiles were fired at Israel. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem remains closed

This is the cover of "Sister Lumberjack" (North Star Press) by Candace Simar. The book was the Catholic Media Association's 2025 third place winner for Catholic novel. (OSV News photo/North Star Press)

Catholic novel shows how God works in our messes