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October 8, 2018
MagazineKaya Oakes
The Conservative Resistance Inside the Vatican
Some Catholic leaders are using the sex abuse crisis to unseat Pope Francis.
August 20, 2018
Sarah Jones
Pope Francis: Catholic Church “abandoned” child sex abuse victims.
August 17, 2018
Sarah Jones
Can the Catholic Church Reform From Within?
A new report on decades of clerical abuse has exposed a secretive culture that is seemingly incapable of policing itself.
August 14, 2018
Sarah Jones
‘It happened everywhere’: The unimaginable scale of sexual abuse in Pennsylvania’s Catholic Church.
August 2, 2018
Matt Ford
Pope Francis goes all-in against the death penalty.
July 9, 2018
Jeet Heer
Why all the anti-Catholic conspiracy-mongering?
May 8, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Getting Into the Holy Spirit
What the Met Gala said about the relationship between Catholic art and contemporary America
April 5, 2018
MagazineLinda Gordon
Body and Soul
How birth-control leaders found allies in American religious groups
February 27, 2018
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt vs. The Pope
The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism.
February 6, 2018
Sarah Jones
Pope Francis is embroiled in a major pedophile scandal.
June 20, 2017
MagazineKathryn Joyce
The Silence of the Lambs
Are Protestants concealing a Catholic-size sexual abuse scandal?
January 18, 2017
Sarah Jones
The Young Pope: An Authoritarian With an American Accent
HBO's new show is both of our time and not.
February 25, 2016
Maggie Foucault
An archbishop hopes to undo all of Pope Francis’s work by hating on Girl Scouts.
January 8, 2016
Elaine Teng
Over 200 children were allegedly abused at a church choir run by Pope Benedict’s brother.
December 14, 2015
Monica Potts
Dispossessed in the Land of Dreams
Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.
December 11, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Year We All Talked About the Catholic Church
In 2015, Pope Francis generated exactly the culture of dialogue he wanted: all-inclusive and yet notably Catholic.
November 17, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says the attack on Paris won't alter its outreach to refugees in the U.S.
June 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Last Time Conservatives Dismissed a Major Encyclical, It Ended Terribly for Them
March 2, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Fear of a Radical Pope
The conservative struggle for the future (and past) of the Catholic church
October 14, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Was the Vatican Shift on Same-Sex Marriage Really An 'Earthquake'?

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