This past week, a report revealed that the New Orleans Saints had aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in damage control and cover-ups following the 2018...
Sex abuse
On the last day of the annual Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta, Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, stood in front...
I had recently given birth to my second child when I first encountered the idea of the “marriage debt.” My ex and I were Catholic converts, and we had become...
Julia Feder is associate professor of religious studies and theology and the director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality at Saint Mary’s College in...
The evil of clericalism, explains Pope Francis in a December 2016 sermon, happens whenever clerics distance themselves from laypeople, especially those who are...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Editors’ note: This episode speaks on sexual abuse, trauma, and healing, and contains content that may be disturbing to...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Editors’ note: This episode speaks on sexual abuse, trauma, and healing, and contains content that may be disturbing to...
I shifted nervously in my seat as the interviewer scanned my résumé. A newly minted graduate, I began to make my case as to why I’d be the best pick for the...
On a beautiful day in the early summer of 2018, I was puttering around my apartment and getting ready for a parish visit. I was content in my work at an...
It was the early 2000s. The stories of sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy were making headlines everywhere and over and over again. Horrifying stories of the...
