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Posted inEditor's Pick

Taken Under Fascism, Spain’s ‘Stolen Babies’ Are Learning the Truth

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 28, 2022October 20, 2022

“Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.”

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, profile, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

A Young Cartographer’s Mission to Map the Catholic Church — and Fight Climate Change

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 9, 2021October 19, 2022

“The role of the cartographer isn’t just data analytics,” says Molly Burhans, an activist mapping the land assets of the Catholic Church. “It’s also storytelling.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 3, 2021October 19, 2022

“Molly Burhans wants the Catholic Church to put its assets—which include farms, forests, oil wells, and millions of acres of land—to better use. But, first, she has to map them.”

Posted inCrime, Culture, Quote Posts, Quotes

Murder in the Name of Drug Prevention

by Aaron Gilbreath June 12, 2019October 19, 2022

Filipinos are reckoning with their presidents’ violent approach to the drug trade.

Posted inCulture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy

by Aaron Gilbreath May 29, 2019October 19, 2022

One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes

How Do You Shepherd If You’ve Never Had a Sheep?

by michelleweber February 27, 2019October 19, 2022

“You couldn’t have a particular friendship with a man, because you might end up being homosexual. And you couldn’t have a friendship with a woman, because you might end up falling in love.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage

by Sari Botton August 30, 2018October 19, 2022

A wide-ranging piece of investigative journalism — the result of four years of research — on widespread abuse and in some cases, the killing of children at St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage in Vermont and other orphanages, in the 20th century.

Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature

Looking for a Greener Death

by michelleweber June 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Aquamation is more environmentally-friendly than cremation and has a growing number of supporters. So why is it mostly illegal?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Writing the Monsignor

by Sari Botton September 19, 2017October 19, 2022

A personal Essay in which young adult author Mary O’Connell reflects on her early writing endeavors, with a local priest’s scandals and her own questioning of faith as her “material.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Writing the Monsignor

by maryoconn September 18, 2017October 19, 2022

Mary O’Connell recalls her college efforts to write about a scandalized priest from her youth.

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