Tennessee

During the summer assignment, from June to the end of July, the seminarians lived amid the elements, sleeping on cots in tents through rainy and humid nights.

Dolly Parton — who died at 80 from cancer on Aug. 25 at her home in Nashville, Tennessee — spent a lifetime comfortably steeped in biblical teaching. And her faith …

The Diocese of Knoxville remembers the late Dolly Parton — whose career as a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist spanned decades.

Paul Vaughn told OSV News that like so many others, his story of coming into the fullness of the Catholic faith has been a meandering faith journey.

Vaughn prayed, sang, bore witness to his faith “and for that, the full weight of the federal government was brought crashing down on his front door.”

The feast day for St. Pier Giorgio Frassati on July 4 will be his first ever since his canonization last year.

“To oppose the death penalty is to affirm hope — that no one, even a person who has committed a grave crime, is beyond the reach of grace.”

“I still feel like I’m in shock. I couldn’t even hold the rosary at first. I prayed for it the next night. It’s really beautiful,” said senior Selena Mullinax.

The Nashville Diocese’s message on Sunday Mass attendance comes amid an immigration operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” was published 30 years ago this week, so it seems fitting that many of our stories looked at the sanctity of human life and our culture …