Even if you cannot write as well as O. Henry, you can still eat as he did at the height of his powers. The literary master penned “The Gift of the Magi” while sitting in a booth in his favorite tavern. The tavern is still there today, and so is O.Henry’s booth.
As the U.S. marked its 250th birthday with fireworks, parades and barbecues, Catholic Scouting America members of course joined in the fun — but they also had a more serious mission during the entire month of July: They were praying for the future of the country.
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, born Edith Stein, remains a powerful figure in Catholic-Jewish dialogue as both faiths reflect on her life, conversion and martyrdom.
Religious persecution in Nigeria remains a key concern for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, its chair told OSV News.
A parish-based rosary-making ministry in Kentucky is on a mission to create 1,000 World Mission Rosaries for the beatification of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen.
More than 600 people filled three theaters for the premiere of “American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story.”
Brooklyn priests Father Hugues Berrette and Father Charlie Keeney traveled the Diocese of Little Rock with eight other priests from July 7–9 on a pastor immersion trip hosted by Catholic Extension, a nonprofit organization that supports the Church in poor and remote mission dioceses nationwide.
A federal judge July 30 temporarily shielded four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.
The U.S. Catholic bishops are getting ready a nationwide call to prayer and action, with an official launch date of Aug. 18, to mobilize Catholics to address the rising abortion rate and the increased availability of an abortion-inducing drug.
As mass deportations loomed following the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti on July 27, members of the island nation’s diaspora filled St. Jerome Church seeking spiritual solace and direction.
