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Last month, scholars from all over the world met to discuss projects related to the clergy sexual abuse as part of Fordham University's "Takin...

The East New Britain Students Association (ENBSA) of the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) recently carried out a 7-day election awareness program during the Christmas holidays in the province.

BRATTLEBORO — An upcoming public conversation is aimed at promoting accountability and healing in the face of sexual harm experienced in schools and the community.

When working with struggling teenagers, I am often chatting with a slouched-over young teen who doesn’t understand why life is not working for him. His academic performance is poor, he barely shows up for school (online or offline), and he spends most of his time in front of a video game or computer screen. He stays up late, eats poorly, and often battles with parents and teachers. His parents have tried everything they can imagine to get through to him. They have pleaded, argued, cried, a...

Field at Chemawa Indian School, Salem, Oregon, pictured after 1933 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS OR-129) In its attempts to address sex abuse crises, the Catholic Church has issued apologies, conducted investigations and paid reparations, but the Vatican has never publicly apologized for abuse inflicted on Indigenous Americans at Catholic-run boarding schools in the United States and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, according to presenters at ...

To the Journal editor: The day after the U.S. Capitol was overrun by a mob intent on interrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election, I spent the morning nauseated by what U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman-Watersmeet, had done while I was sleeping. Despite seeing the afternoon’s violence close-up, he doubled-down and objected to the electoral vote counts of both Arizona and Pennsylvania–an act that fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described as “an exceptionally dangerous precedent, th...