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Dan Stockman

Dan Stockman is national correspondent for Global Sisters Report. He was a reporter at daily newspapers in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana for nearly two decades before joining GSR in 2014.

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Female students show their handiwork at St. Benedict's Mission School on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota in the 1890s. ("Work room at St. Benedict's Mission School," College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Libraries, https://csbsjulib.omeka.net/items/show/928)

Newly published list shows Catholic sisters ran 74 US Native American boarding schools

The Catholic Truth & Healing website lists 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools before 1978 across 22 states. Seventy-three of those schools were run or staffed by Catholic women religious.

People march outside the White House Aug. 15 at a rally calling on President Donald Trump to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. (CNS/Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Catholic leaders get personal over threat to DACA

Bishop Mark Seitz and others call out Trump's Catholic chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, asking him to shield the immigration policy protecting young people brought to the U.S. as children.

Congregations receive $25 million to cover retirement shortfalls

Q & A with Sr. Mary Going, fighting for disability pay for former coal miners

Black Catholic groups stand in solidarity

LCWR: business as usual despite cloud of Vatican mandate

LCWR: 'Ongoing conversation with church leadership is key'

Johnson to LCWR: Sisters ahead of hierarchy in living Vatican II renewal

LCWR elects new leaders as assembly draws to a close

LCWR members set sights on justice for indigenous peoples, environment

LCWR assembly draws one demonstrator protesting handling of abuse

LCWR speaker: 'We have become more faithful, not less'

LCWR speakers: Failure to listen leads to judgment, cynicism, fear

Catholic Health Association meets in closed-door session to discuss Affordable Care Act

Sartain to LCWR assembly: I'm here 'as a brother and a friend'

Stakes are high as LCWR heads into annual assembly

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