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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Jason Berry
Three hours after the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died on April 21, the bells of Notre-Dame de Paris, the cathedral majestically restored after an epic fire in 2019, tolled 88 chimes in slow tempo.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Jason Berry
Pope Francis visits Casa Hogar el Buen Samaritano (Good Samaritan Home) in Panama City Jan. 27, 2019. (CNS/Paul Haring) Tomorrow, the church of Rome will bury its bishop and the universal church will bid goodbye to its pastor. This much beloved pope will be laid to rest in his tomb in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Can we hope that the criticisms of this pope will go into the grave with him?
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Junno Arocho Esteves |Jason Berry
Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of 88, faced the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, attempting to balance defending the church from criticism while showing compassion toward survivors, with often mixed results.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | John Grosso |Michael Sean Winters |Jason Berry
Pope Francis was not the first pope to use social media but he greatly expanded the church's social media footprint and built a foundation for the church's ongoing ministry in the "digital continent."When he was elected in 2013, Francis was celebrated as the first Latin American pope. It seems only fitting that such a groundbreaking pope would be the one to charge fearlessly into the digital continent as well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Jason Berry
James Carville, the strategist who has been one of the few establishment Democrats to have been warning about Joe Biden’s age issue before the president’s disastrous debate performance Thursday, has called on his party to “deliver change” and replace the president as its nominee for November’s election.
