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What’s Happened to Hospice?

A Gospel of Life Disciples + Dwellings (GOLD) resident celebrates his birthday at the St. John Paul II Dwelling in Moore, Oklahoma.

What started as a Christian work of mercy has morphed into a $31 billion-a-year industry that’s attracting fraudsters and private-equity profit hunters. As legalized assisted suicide gains a foothold in the U.S., some pro-life advocates fear worse problems lie in store.

New Book Explores Catholic Shrines Across America, State by State

Book cover of ‘The United Saints of America’ with a detail from the ceiling of St. Mary of the Annunciation in Charlestown, South Carolina.

Peggy Stanton’s richly illustrated guide invites readers on a state-by-state pilgrimage to churches, shrines and holy sites that tell the story of Catholicism in America