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St Michael winners

St. Michael Parish Celebrates Record-Breaking Super Raffle

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CYO

Hard work and good defense prove critical in championship games

CYO Boys’ Basketball

Dr. Claudia Sadowski

Leadership formation focuses on pastoral service within Hispanic communities

See. Illuminate. Act. Celebrate.

Rebekah Martin and Sister Benedicta stand by bags containing 1,500 stuffed animals donated to Franciscan Health by The Eva Martin Project, founded in memory of Rebekah’s daughter.

The Eva Martin Project honors memory of 3-year-old Michigan girl

Stuffed Animals for Pediatric Patients

ICC, bishops call for ‘humane legislative solutions’ on immigration

Matt Kresich

Diocesan native asks readers to listen for God's call

The Path of Discernment

Nation & World

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking at a news conference in London Aug. 14, 1986. Rev. Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate diversity and failure to support voting rights, died at age 84 Feb. 17, 2026. (OSV News photo/Peter Skingley, Reuters)

Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at 84; Catholic leaders praise civil rights leader's work for justice

Pope Leo XIV and former U.S. President Barack Obama are pictured in a combination photo. Obama said in a YouTube interview posted Feb. 14, 2026, that he wants to meet the American pontiff. (OSV News photo/CNS/Lola Gomez/Jim Young, Reuters)

The No. 1 person former President Obama most wants to meet? It's Pope Leo XIV

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, sprinkles ashes on the had of another cardinal during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome in this file photo from March 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

From Foreheads to Crowns: How Ash Wednesday looks different worldwide