By Father Tyler Tenbarge Special to The Message It has been another fruitful and encouraging fall for vocations in our…
Submitted photo Jeremy Goebel, standing at left, Diocesan Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, serves as MC for the…
BY BARB UMBERGER Catholic News Service MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) – Parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota,…
BY CAROL GLATZ Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The season of Advent is a moment of grace to…
BY CINDY WOODEN Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Stopping to gaze at, and perhaps pray before, a Nativity…
By LAURA KELLY FANUCCI FAITH AT HOME Laura Kelly Fanucci If I asked you to imagine Jesus’ childhood, you’d likely…
By ZOE CANNON GRATITUDE FOR THE GIFT OF FAITH “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence…
Editor’s note: The Spanish translation appears below. BECAUSE I AM CATHOLIC! BY SANDRA PATRICIA BAZALDUA I grew up in a…
By FATHER DONALD DILGER SUNDAY SCRIPTURE Third Sunday of Advent, Year A First Reading: Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10; Response: Psalm 146:6-7,…
By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI 20-SOMETHING From the beginning, there was music. It signaled the parade of life – comings and goings, mornings…
By MARY KAYE FALCONY CONNECTING FAITH AND LIFE “If you want peace in the world, go home and love your…
Seminarian Blaise Kelley Seminary, Class: Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis, Sophomore Home Parish: St. Wendel Parish, St. Wendel…
By Tim Lilley The Message editor Thank you for your ongoing support of Southwest Indiana’s Catholic community newspaper. We are…
The Message photo by Tim Lilley Members of Evansville’s Mater Dei High School football team ride atop two Evansville Fire…
Special to The Message Following completion of a thorough investigation, Evansville Bishop Joseph M. Siegel has returned Father Bernie Etienne,…
Effie Caldarola “All the leaves are brown. And the sky is gray.” As we lean into another Advent, that opening…
Catholic News Service illustration SPRING, Texas (CNS) – Disability ministry leaders, advocates, family members and others gathered recently at St.…
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan Editor’s note: The U.S. Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act Nov. 29 by a 61-36…
By FATHER DONALD DILGER SUNDAY SCRIPTURE Second Sunday of Advent, Year A First Reading: Isaiah 11:1-10; Response: Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8,…
By KAITLIN KLEIN WONDERFUL ADVENTURE Continuing the series of exploring the first 14 rules written by St. Ignatius of Loyola…
By ERIC GIRTEN THE CATHOLIC KITCHEN My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, As we step into Advent and prepare…
The Message photos by Megan Erbacher Students at Evansville’s Resurrection School recently declared war on hunger. They collected canned goods,…
Seminarian Dylan Stefanich Seminary, Class: Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, Philosophy I Home Parish: Holy Cross Parish, Fort Branch…
By Megan Erbacher The Message assistant editor Local author Mary Jo Huff, of Storytellin’ Time in Newburgh, reads her new…
By Megan Erbacher The Message assistant editor As a child, Abbey Chapman always loved the Indiana Academic Spell Bowl. She’s…