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Andrean High School sophomores Madeline Linkliter (front, left) and Armani Green (front, right) stand at the head of their theology class at the Merrillville campus on Feb. 18. The 59ers are among the students who participate in not only their academic, athletic and extra-curricular activities, but also engage in the many volunteer charitable opportunities afforded to them through the campus ministry and theology departments. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)

Andrean students step up to meet charitable opportunities

Father Coriden

Priest remembered as nationally renowned Canonist and author

Bishop Robert J. McClory accepts the offertory gifts at St. Stephen, Martyr's closing Mass on Feb. 15 from two specially chosen parishioners, Isabel Ramirez (left), age 100, who attended the parish's first Mass 57 years ago, and Ann Janda, the first baby baptized in the new church building 55 years ago. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Bishop joins parishioners to celebrate St. Stephen, Martyr

Brian Pillar (center), a teacher at Bishop Noll Institute in Hammond, was nominated for the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by Business Honor Society vice president Julian Villagomez (left) and president Jonathan Johnson. (Provided photo)

Educator and community leader receives presidential award

Bishop Robert J. McClory, Diocese of Gary, spoke to those gathered at a press conference sponsored by the Indiana Catholic Conference in support of proposed legislature to discontinue the death penalty. (Photo by Sean Gallagher/The Criterion)

Faith leaders, lawmakers call for end to death penalty in Indiana

Clergymen recall Jubilee 2000 Holy Doors opening in Rome

Nation & World

After celebrating a 350th anniversary Mass for St. Mary Parish in Newport, Md., on Sept. 7, 2024, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory greets parishioners outside the church and plays Patty-Cake with a little boy, Gregory Skibinsky, held by his mother, Erica Skibinsky. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)

He's made history as first African American to be cardinal, archbishop of Washington

Sister Gemma del Duca, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa., is pictured in a file photo at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Sister Gemma, co-founder of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill, was awarded the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Class of 2024 last September. The award honors women for their outstanding service and contributions to the Commonwealth. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

Meet the Sister of Charity making sure Catholics 'never forget' the Holocaust

Pilgrims process from St. Theodore's Catholic Church through the town of Laporte, Minn., May 20, 2024, during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. (OSV News photo/Courtney Meyer)

10-state National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to go right through Iowa's 'Field of Dreams'