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Students from St. Mary Catholic Community School

St. Mary students experience history firsthand on recent trip

Boston Bound

St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is delighted to share that the Phase 1 Kickoff Celebration & Brick Blessing took place last Sunday morning, July 27th. This joyful event was held outside in front of the church with approximately 100 parishioners and friends in attendance.

St. Stanislaus Kostka continues capital campaign to care for building

Brick By Brick

Immaculate Conception Grotto May Crowning

Immaculate Conception Grotto continues to honor the Blessed Mother for close to 100 years

An Exterior Sign of Catholicism

Bishop McClory

Themes of change and service punctuate Calumet College graduation

Calumet College of St. Joseph Commencement

Kristy Olsen, community resource supervisor, and Jennie Weer, donor relations officer, water the plants and check the supplies in the kitchen of the former convent at Sojourner Truth House in Gary, which has been converted into a transitional housing center for young women ages 18-24. The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, sponsors of STH, has donated the convent, and a former orphanage in East Chicago, to the women’s resource center. (Marlene A. Zloza photo)

Sojourner Truth House welcomes young women as they pursue goals

Transitional Housing Opens

Young people exchange names and answer three questions about themselves as they mingle before a Young Adult Summer Speaker Series in Dyer on June 4, 2025. Up to 90 participants have enjoyed the Diocese of Gary sessions for the past three years, and a new slate of speakers is scheduled this summer at different parishes each Wednesday. (Marlene A. Zloza/file photo)

Speaker series offers new line-up to engage young Catholics this summer

Faith and Fellowship

Nation & World

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "ICE out" during a protest against immigration actions outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago Nov. 7, 2025. Leaders of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership said that with a judge's order May 15, 2026, some of their members are now allowed into the Broadview ICE facility to minister to detainees daily. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

Daily pastoral visits resume at ICE facility near Chicago after judge's order

A combination photo shows Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle in an undated image and a painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is seen during Palm Sunday Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., April 13, 2025. On May 15, 2026, Archbishop Etienne issued a pastoral letter on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, titled "Meek and Humble of Heart." (OSV News photo/Archdiocese of Seattle, CNS/Bob Roller)

Devotion to Sacred Heart 'more timely than ever' as a return to love itself, says archbishop

Pope Leo XIV confirms a man he baptized during the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 4, 2026. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope Leo XIV urges confirmation candidates to ask Holy Spirit for gift of perseverance