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Ken Kolodziej, Dan Ditola and Ed Schneider of the St. John the Evangelist Men's Club present the 2024 Sylvester Reising Stewardship Award to Theresa Birlson together with Danny Reising. Reising is the great grandson of Sy Reising for whom the award is named. (Provided photo)

SJE Men’s Club recognizes efforts of parishioner Theresa Birlson

Alice Earnshaw greets visitors to St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart each Tuesday as a volunteer at the West Entrance reception desk. At 94, she enjoys staying activce and helping people. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Staying active as a volunteer keeps senior in step

Father Sroka

Priest remembered as a kind, spiritual and welcoming pastor

Costumed as peasant women, and carrying small candles in their hands, dancers from St. Margaret Mary church closed the Mass on Dec. 8 in honor of the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe. With a congregation of more than 500 expected, the liturgy celebrated by Bishop Robert J. McClory was held at the Bichop Noll Institute fieldhouse next to the church. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Music, dancing and scripture honor Blessed Mother

Bishop Robert J. McClory (left) greets discerners including Alexander Brown (right), 15, during the Andrew Dinner on Dec. 3 at St. John the Evangelist in St. John. The event, hosted by the diocesan vocations office team, is a causal gathering designed to support those who may have a calling to the priesthood and is based on the traditional view that Andrew the apostle was first to share the Good News, having located his brother Simon to bring him before Jesus. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Young men hosted at Andrew Dinner to talk priesthood

Christine Shewchuck, of Corporate Travel, talks with Father Nathaniel Edquist prior to a meeting on Nov. 21 about a diocesan pilgrimage to Rome next year. Both Father Edquist and Bishop Robert J. McClory will be participating in the pilgrimage scheduled for Fall 2025. (Erin Ciszczon photo)

Diocese finalizes plans to travel to Rome for 2025 Jubilee

Nation & World

A wax figure of actor Jimmy Stewart is seen with a painted backdrop resembling a scene from "It's A Wonderful Life" at Madame Tussauds Hollywood during a press preview June 11, 2009. (OSV News photo/Fred Prouser, Reuters)

Glory to the newborn King

Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., chairman of the board of the National Eucharistic Congress Inc., blesses pilgrims July 17, 2024, during adoration at the opening revival night of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

National pilgrimage, congress stand out as 2024 highlights for US church

A family leaves the scene of a mass shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., Dec. 16, 2024. At least two people are dead, in addition to the suspect, and others are injured, after the mass shooting, police said. (OSV News photo/Cullen Granzen, Reuters)

3 dead, including teen suspect, in mass shooting at Wisconsin Christian school