In many ways, Father Michael J. McGivney was just one more of that band of hardworking Irish-American priests who spent themselves building up the church in America in the latter …
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Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray published a collection of essays in 1960 which have proved to be a distinguished intellectual landmark in the project of integrating Catholicism and Americanism.
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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring the lives of Great American Catholics ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary celebration. (OSV News) — As the Revolutionary War …
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Dorothy Day: Catholic Worker founder pioneered a faith-based alternative to secularist progressivism
Day preached radical Christianity and no less radical social activism to a sometimes appreciative, sometimes puzzled, sometimes angry audience of American Catholics.
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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring the lives of Great American Catholics ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary celebration. (OSV News) — At the very least, …
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To President Franklin Roosevelt, he was the “Happy Warrior.” To suspicious Protestants, he was a pawn of the pope. Amid such conflicting views as these, a remarkable political career was …
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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring the lives of Great American Catholics ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary celebration. (OSV News) — In late spring or …
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Many cardinals have had books written about them, but few have become the fictionalized heroes of best-selling novels.
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“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it,” Flannery O’Connor once said.
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In a long, fruitful career as leader of the American hierarchy, Cardinal Gibbons combined diplomacy, patriotism and a canny understanding of human nature.
