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Students from St. Mary Catholic Community School

St. Mary students experience history firsthand on recent trip

Boston Bound

St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is delighted to share that the Phase 1 Kickoff Celebration & Brick Blessing took place last Sunday morning, July 27th. This joyful event was held outside in front of the church with approximately 100 parishioners and friends in attendance.

St. Stanislaus Kostka continues capital campaign to care for building

Brick By Brick

Immaculate Conception Grotto May Crowning

Immaculate Conception Grotto continues to honor the Blessed Mother for close to 100 years

An Exterior Sign of Catholicism

Bishop McClory

Themes of change and service punctuate Calumet College graduation

Calumet College of St. Joseph Commencement

Kristy Olsen, community resource supervisor, and Jennie Weer, donor relations officer, water the plants and check the supplies in the kitchen of the former convent at Sojourner Truth House in Gary, which has been converted into a transitional housing center for young women ages 18-24. The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, sponsors of STH, has donated the convent, and a former orphanage in East Chicago, to the women’s resource center. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Sojourner Truth House welcomes young women as they pursue goals

Transitional Housing Opens

Young people exchange names and answer three questions about themselves as they mingle before a Young Adult Summer Speaker Series in Dyer on June 4, 2025. Up to 90 participants have enjoyed the Diocese of Gary sessions for the past three years, and a new slate of speakers is scheduled this summer at different parishes each Wednesday. (Marlene A. Zloza/file photo)

Speaker series offers new line-up to engage young Catholics this summer

Faith and Fellowship

Nation & World

Pope Leo XIV signs his first apostolic exhortation, "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You"), in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2025, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. His first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," will be published May 25, 2026, addressing artificial intelligence and the protection of human dignity, the Vatican announced May 18, 2026. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media/CPP)

What exactly is an encyclical?

Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, a member of the U.S. Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving event at the National Mall in Washington, May 17, 2026. (OSV News screenshot)

America 250 occasion to reflect on equality as a God-given right, Bishop Barron says

Bishop Pierre-André Dumas of Anse-à-Veau-Miragoâne, Haiti, processes during Palm Sunday Mass at St. Mary Cathedral in Miami March 29, 2026. (OSV News photo/Andoni Biurrarena, Florida Catholic)

Haitian bishop sees 'signs of God's tenderness' amid ongoing recovery from serious burns