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(OSV News) — The waters of the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan present themselves in beautifully variegated blues. Dark indigo, rich cobalt and bright turquoise greet …

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 …

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.

In an age when it seems everyone wants to have more, be more, say more, achieve more, we’re introduced in this Sunday’s Gospel to an idea that some might consider …

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 …

(OSV News) — On May 17, 1846, the U.S. bishops, 23 in number, consecrated the United States of America to the patronage of the Blessed Mother under the title of …

Day preached radical Christianity and no less radical social activism to a sometimes appreciative, sometimes puzzled, sometimes angry audience of American Catholics.

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, …

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 …

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 …