Local religious communities will be hosting a variety of Lenten services, retreats and other events.
Looking ahead: 2023 Lenten opportunities in the diocese
Pope urges Congo’s bishops to be prophetic
The bishops must make sure the Gospel speaks to a nation enduring violence, civil unrest and poverty, the pope said.
Catholics, Anglicans discern ‘the Spirit at work’ in latest ecumenical dialogue
Over the past several years, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops and the Anglican Church in North America have moved from an initial “meet and greet … to really looking at theology together,” Father Walter Kedjierski, executive director of the USCCB’s Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.
What’s Lourdes’ secret? The Eucharist, reveals shrine’s chief medical officer
The U.S. debut of the documentary “Lourdes” comes to over 700 theaters nationwide Feb. 8 and 9, 2023, and follows the compelling stories of six fragile pilgrims in search of a miracle.
Students help create website, app to assist Burmese Catholics grow in their faith
aul Hnin dreamed of a way to help nurture the life of prayer and faith of his fellow Hakha Chin Catholics living in the Archdiocese in Indianapolis, in other places around the world and in his native Myanmar, where they face persecution from a military dictatorship in the southeast Asian country.
Catholic bishop, youth and religious in South Sudan embark on long, grueling trek to meet pope
In what is called the Ecumenical Pilgrimage of Peace Feb. 3-5, Pope Francis will visit South Sudan’s capital, Juba.
Priest who offered up cancer for clerical abuse victims says he was healed at Lourdes
Father John Hollowell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, announced Jan. 30 that his brain cancer has disappeared following a June 2022 pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Lourdes, France.
New translation tweaks to sacrament of penance take effect this Lent
The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.