Children at the Nazareth Home in East Chicago play druing a summer morning at the facility in 2012. (NWIC file photo)   BY ERIN CISZCZON Northwest Indiana Catholic         EAST CHICAGO – What started in 1993 as a way to confront the growing problem of abused and abandoned children with unique medical needs grew...

  St. Stanislaus, East Chicago, principal Jackie Ruiz (left)  greets St. Casimir, Hammond principal Matt Chico (right) at the back to school principals retreat at Our Lady of Consolation in Merrillville on July 30. Superintendent of Catholic schools Joseph Majchrowicz, Ed. D., and Precious Blood Father Kevin Scalf, Humanities chairperson of...

  Members of Knights of Columbus St. Thomas Council 1347 use an assembly line system to package fish and shrimp dinners for employees at St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart on July 31 as part of a First Responders 'Thank You' Fish Fry hosted by the K of C at St....

During Mass on Aug. 5, the feast day of St. John Vianney, patron of priests, Bishop Robert J. McClory (top, second from left) prays for seminarians Steven Caraher (right) and Zachary Glick (second from right) as they took one step closer to the priesthood during the Rite of Admission to...