Jason Berry

Jan 22, 2025 | ncronline.org | Jason Berry |Michael Sean Winters |Shadrack Omuka

New Year's dawned with numbing reports of a man who maneuvered a truck around barricades onto Bourbon Street, mowing down late night revelers before New Orleans police officers shot him dead. Stories of accomplices were soon quashed by an FBI spokesman who said the Texas-born killer, inspired by the Islamic State group, acted alone. Fourteen people died; at least 57 were injured.

Nov 16, 2024 | ncronline.org | Jason Berry |Patsy McGarry |Marie Collins

A view of Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 2008 includes the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nathy. (Wikimedia Commons/Sean Cunniffe) Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent Patsy McGarry 304 pages; Merrion Press The longtime Irish Times religious affairs correspondent Patsy McGarry is a conscience of Ireland.

Aug 26, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Jason Berry

SharePhil Donahue was to talk show hosts as Fr. Andrew Greeley was to priests and Jason Berry is to print journalists: the first in his field to credibly address the Catholic Church's then virtually unspoken problem of pedophile priests. (At great risk, of course, the National Catholic Reporter was the first newspaper with a national circulation to write about abuses and cover-ups, before both Donahue and Greeley.

Aug 26, 2024 | brownpelicanla.com | Jason Berry |Jeanie Hannaman

When the Circus Came to Chicago, by Regis MartinAugust 26, 2024 By Jason Berry, The Guardian, (Complicit Clergy), August 25, 2024 Geo, the name he prefers, sits in a coffee shop on a rainy afternoon as streetcars clang along outside. He is 64. He arrived at Madonna Manor, the Catholic orphanage he is now suing, in August of 1967, as a ward of Louisiana, age seven. “My childhood was horrific,” he says matter-of-factly.

Aug 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jason Berry

Geo, the name he prefers, sits in a coffee shop on a rainy afternoon as streetcars clang along outside. He is 64. He arrived at Madonna Manor, the Catholic orphanage he is now suing, in August of 1967, as a ward of Louisiana, age seven. “My childhood was horrific,” he says matter-of-factly. “My father was an abusive alcoholic, my mother diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. Madonna Manor was a place where dysfunctional parents dumped their children.