Dawn Eden Goldstein

2 weeks ago | wherepeteris.com | Dawn Eden Goldstein

Editor’s note: Following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025, the editors of Where Peter Is received many tributes to his life and reflections on his influence from past and current contributors, as well as podcast guests and friends of the site from all over the world. We will publish a few of these reflections every day leading up to the conclave. —MLBy Bishop Richard Umbers, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of SydneyPope Francis had a knack for making faith feel real and grounded.

2 months ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Dawn Eden Goldstein

A never-married man meets a divorced woman whose ex-husband is still alive. They fall in love and want to marry in the Catholic Church. A media outlet that brands itself “Real Catholic” causes disruption in the Catholic community as it promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories. A group of women who are consecrated members of a Catholic religious institute feel that the Holy Spirit is calling them to leave their institute so they may start a new one. What do all those scenarios have in common?

Feb 12, 2025 | wherepeteris.com | Dawn Eden Goldstein

On June 9, 1918, in a Denver chapel, thousands of people filed silently past the body of the first American Catholic laywoman ever granted the privilege of lying in state. This extraordinary woman was not a member of the city’s ruling class. She was a domestic worker, formerly enslaved, with only one good eye, who wore the same clothes every day. Her name was Julia Greeley, and she spent herself ministering to Denver’s poor.

Dec 11, 2024 | wherepeteris.com | Dawn Eden Goldstein

[Editor’s note: Where Peter Is is committed to providing faithful, challenging, and thought-provoking content while defending the integrity of Catholic teaching and tradition. The following account by Dawn Eden Goldstein illustrates a common experience for our writers, who are often criticized, misrepresented, or accused of heterodoxy for expressing views in line with Pope Francis’s vision of the Church.

May 30, 2024 | matterstwomey.substack.com | Dawn Eden Goldstein

In my last post, I shared my first stab at the beginning of chapter 1 of my biography-in-progress A Priest in Good Trouble: Father Louis J. Twomey, SJ’s Battle for Human Dignity with MLK in the Deep South. (If you’re new to Matters Twomey, you may wish to read my America article on Father LJT for a general overview of his life and work.)Since writing that post five days ago, I’ve managed to make further progress on the chapter, including revising and adding to the excerpt I posted.