'A Private Matter'
Joe Biden’s very public clash with his own church.
Joe Biden’s very public clash with his own church.
Ruby Cramer Politico Sep 2021 30min Permalink
When word spreads about a 17-year-old in rural Tuscany reputed to have clairvoyant powers, she must withstand followers seeking her wisdom and officials hellbent on tearing her down.
Gabriella Gage Truly*Adventurous Jul 2021 25min Permalink
An investigation into how the Church moves its money.
Josh Saul Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2020 15min Permalink
Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.
Mike Mariani The Atlantic Dec 2018 25min Permalink
Expected and unexpected salvation.
Nathan Thomas Hobart Nov 2018 10min Permalink
Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn’t make it out alive.
Christine Kenneally Buzzfeed Aug 2018 1h50min Permalink
Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.
Ruth Graham Slate Sep 2017 15min Permalink
“If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind or comforting word.”
Michael Rezendes Boston Globe Aug 2017 20min Permalink
The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.
William Friedkin Vanity Fair Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The real journalists who inspired the movie look back on their investigation.
Sarah Larson New Yorker Dec 2015 20min Permalink
Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.
Laura Bassett Huffington Post May 2015 30min Permalink
A profile of Pope Francis.
James Carroll New Yorker Dec 2013 40min Permalink
An interview with Pope Francis.
Antonio Spadaro SJ America Sep 2013 50min Permalink
On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.
N.R. Kleinfield New York Times Feb 2013 10min Permalink
What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?
Ariel Sabar Washingtonian Jul 2012 40min Permalink
John C. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom Deluise. He likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and allegedly treats them to trips in the Florida Keys. He was, until recently, part owner of a company that makes "all natural" boner-inducing beverages. He's also the Archbishop Emeritus of Miami.
Brandon K. Thorp Gawker Jul 2011 25min Permalink
An investigation into clergy sexual abuse in Philadelphia.
Robert Huber Philadelphia Magazine Jun 2011 25min Permalink
How the Jesuit Church refused to stop pedophile priest:
"He truly is the Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world. He did more psychological and physical damage to children than anyone else. And what makes it worse is that the Jesuits knew about it, and did nothing."
Peter Jamison San Francisco Weekly May 2011 20min Permalink
An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.
Brendan Kiley The Stranger Feb 2009 20min Permalink