The saint, who founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, helped lobby Congress in 1924 to make an federal income tax deduction for charitable giving part of the U.S. tax code.
How a saint became part of the tax code, forever changing U.S. philanthropy
Movie: ‘1917’
“1917” is a great movie about the Great War — by turns harrowing and lyrically beautiful, and deeply humane throughout.
U.S. bishops’ conference arose out of a national crisis a century ago
In responding to WWI, the Catholic Church sought how to best serve both its own people and the larger national community at a time of great need, and today the needs of the church and the common good at large continue to guide the USCCB and those who work for it.
New film on Armenian genocide took two years to make, longer to realize
“The Promise” stars Oscar Isaac as an Armenian medical student in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Christian Bale as a globetrotting Associated Press correspondent detailing the growing horror of the genocide.
‘Great War’ brought Catholics, bishops into mainstream of U.S. society
April 6 marks the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entrance into the World War I. On April 2, 1917, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson asked a special joint session of Congress to declare war on the German Empire. Congress issued the declaration April 6, 1917.