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Mass for Black Catholic History Month

Diocese remembers heroes of faith, saints of the past, in special liturgy

Black Catholic History Month

During an intermission between his two presentations on Nov. 8, Catholic ethicist Father Tad Pacholczyk, Ph.D., talks with attendee Jeffery Wozniak, a member of Parishioners for Life at St. Patrick in Chesterton and sexton of the parish cemetery. “Sacred Decisions on Life and Death,” was sponsored by the Diocese of Gary at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs South Campus in Merrillville. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Ethicist shares Catholic positions on infertility and end-of-life issues

Sacred Decisions On Life And Death

64th Annual Spaghetti Supper at St. Mary

Italian dinner benefits school, promotes community

64th Annual Spaghetti Supper

Friends of the Foundation Reception

Friends of the Foundation celebrates growth, honors Mercy Grant recipients

Listen to Your Heart

St Adalbert Hall

Hall continues to foster special memories after nearly 100 years

A Place Of Community, Faith and Joy

Chapko family

Crown Point teen enjoys volunteering at parish, ready for NCYC

Going To NCYC

Nation & World

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin delivers a homily after announcing the elevation of St. Mary's Pro Cathedral to formal cathedral status at a Mass to mark the bicentenary of the church's dedication in 1825 and the feast of the city's patron, St. Laurence O'Toole, on Nov. 14, 2025. The Catholics of Dublin have a dedicated cathedral for the first time in 500 years following Pope Leo XIV's decision on Nov. 14 to designate St. Mary's as the Irish capital's official Catholic cathedral. (OSV News photo/courtes

Catholics in Dublin now have a dedicated cathedral for first time in 500 years

A screenshot of the film "Sacré Coeur," directed by Steven and Sabrina Gunnell and released in France Oct. 1, 2025, is seen, picturing St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus was showing his heart between 1673 and 1675 in Paray-le-Monial, in the French region of Burgundy. With more than 400,000 viewers since the film's release as of Nov. 14, and counting, the new film about the Sacred Heart of Jesus has become an unexpected box office hit in France. (OSV News/courtesy SAJE)

Sacred Heart film breaks all records in secular France for viewership and public backlash

Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is seen in a file photo from Jan. 21, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Nuncio in Britain says pope won't overturn restrictions on old Latin Mass