"Forgive me Father Hying, this is my first confession. I did things that sabotaged a friendship I so dearly valued when you were Bishop of the Diocese of Gary."
Tickets are now sale for the return of The Oak Ridge Boys as the weekend headliners for the 2023 Porter County Fair in Valparaiso. The iconic country music performers, boasting a half-century career of entertaining behind those beards, are in the grandstand stage spotlight for one concert 5 p.m. on July 23.
GARY, Ind. (AP) Retired Bishop Dale Melczek, who led Indiana's Catholic Diocese of Gary for more than two decades, has died at age 83. The diocese said Melczek died Thursday after going into hospice care following a recent severe stroke.