SoulCore participants relax between the physical exercises as they focus on the spiritual exercises through meditating on one of the mysteries of the rosary. Mary O'Donnell (left) leads a group of Soul Core participants in the Queen of All Saints' gym on May 15. Soul Core helps participants give their...

  Statuary representing a visit from Our Lady of Lourdes stands on an island surrounded by a small lake on the grounds of the Franciscan Lourdes Friary in Cedar Lake on June 4. Owned by the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Province of the Order of Friars Minor since 1938,...

  Members of the Ascent men's group make the turn on a path of steps at Munster's Centennial Park on the morning on May 15. The group, a St. John the Evangelist of St. John ministry, is open to local Catholic men who seek to raise the levels of their spiritual...

  Deacon Paul Krilich and newly-ordained Father Joseph Marie Krilich hold up the consecrated bread and wine during his first Mass following his ordination to the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance of the Friars of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. on May 22 at Franciscan University In...

  Finding a basement storage closet to be a good sound-insulated setting, Steven Caraher (left) and his dad PJ Caraher (right) converse during a recording of their podcast Father and Dad, from their Munster home on May 21. Steven Caraher, a diocesan seminarian and PJ Caraher, a software engineer, have hosted...

  "What makes you happy?" is the question posed by Totus Tuus missionary team member Ivan Alatorre, a Diocese of Gary seminarian, to first- and second-graders at the start of a class about Genesis, "From the Beginning," at St. John the Evangelist in St. John on June 14. Answers ranged from...