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Char Reynolds, recipient of the 2026 Dr. John Kelly Founder’s Award, carries a bouquet and plaque among guests at the Lake County Right to Life banquet hosted on April 24 at Avalon Manor in Merrillville. The 53rd annual fundraising banquet featured keynote speaker Doctor George Delgado, a San Diego, California-based physician who pioneered an abortion pill reversal treatment that has saved the lives of more than 8,000 babies. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Pro-life advocates gather at Lake County Right to Life Banquet

Culture of Life

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Webinar discusses foundation and tools of Catholic Social Teaching to empower young people

Turning Faith Into Action

A display about organ donations was set up in the lobby of Franciscan Health Crown Point on April 21 for the annual Donate Life Celebration hosted by the hospital. Reading the Messages of Hope posted by employees and visitors are Katrina Hejnowski, chief nursing officer, and visitor Troy urtis, of Lacrosse. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Organ donations provide the precious gift of life for thousands

Donate Life Celebration

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Each family who adopts has its own unique story

Diocese to Host Adoption and Foster Care Seminar

Kristine Coronado ( from left) , co-executive director for Right to Life of Northwest Indiana, explains the work of her organization in Porter and LaPorte counties, to Stephanie Valdovinos, of Valparaiso, and Destinie and Jose Alcantar, of Chesterton, guests at the “Evangelizing Reality: Science & the Culture of Life” program at Journeyman Distillery in Valparaiso on April 15. Both Valdovinos and Destinie Alcantar are registered nurses at Franciscan Health Michigan City who came at the invitation of speaker

Fertility management teacher explains how scientific advances help couples

Facing Reproductive Issues

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Priest remembered as gentle and kind, ready to serve

Father Richard Kozak (1941-2026)

Nation & World

Pope Leo XIV prays in front of a fresco of Our Lady of Good Counsel at the shrine named after the image in Genazzano, Italy, southeast of Rome, May 10, 2025. In a video message released April 30, 2026, by the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, the pope called on Catholics worldwide to confront the problem of food insecurity with both prayer and concrete action. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo's prayer intention for May: 'That everyone might have food'

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Stanley Tucci, star in a scene from the movie "The Devil Wears Prada 2." The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (OSV News photo/Macall Polay, 20th Century Studios)

Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2

Father Nikodemus Schnabel, then spokesman for the Benedictine Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion in Jerusalem’s Old City, is pictured Jan. 23, 2022. Now abbot, the priest warned in address to Aid to the Church in Need April 24, 2026, the Christian population that has borne the brunt of war and economic hardship is slowly diminishing. OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

Benedictine abbot warns of Holy Land becoming 'Christian Disneyland'