The Catholic nun stories that haven’t gone viral (yet). Ep. 94

Catholics love a good nun story. A chainsaw-wielding sister cleans
up after Hurricane Irma? Social media gold. Nuns playing soccer?
Yes please. And who can forget Sister Jean? (Not Zac). But every
day and on every continent women religious are doing life-saving,
cutting-edge work in hospitals, research laboratories, refugee
camps and prisons. And those are the stories Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
tells as a writer for National Catholic Reporter’s Global Sisters
Report.   We ask Dawn what she wished more people knew about
the work of women religious, especially black sisters, and about
her own experience working as a person of color in the mostly white
Catholic media world.   In Signs of the Times, we bring you
the top takeaways from the Vatican’s historic summit on child
sexual abuse and discuss the case of Cardinal George Pell, the
highest-level church official ever to be convicted of abusing a
minor. Next, Pope Francis plans to write an apostolic exhortation
on last year’s youth synod. What is an apostolic exhortation and
why should we care? And finally, a new poll shows growing support
for pro-life positions.   You can let us know what you think
about our conversation with Dawn or any of our stories in our
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to know Cardinal Pell, most senior Catholic charged with child sex
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has right to defend himself to the end Pope to issue post-synod
document on young people in March New poll: Big majorities of
Democrats and young people reject late-term abortion   What’s
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