Renée K. Gadoua

Renée K. Gadoua, a writer and editor based in Syracuse, New York, is a National Catholic Reporter copy editor. She has written for numerous secular and Catholic outlets, including Religion News Service, the Syracuse Catholic Sun, U.S. Catholic and NCR.

Previously a religion reporter for The Post-Standard of Syracuse, she has won numerous writing awards for editorials, features and religion reporting from Religion News Association, Catholic Media Association and the New York State Associated Press Association.

She earned a bachelor's degree from Le Moyne College in Syracuse and a master's degree from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Follow her on Twitter @ReneeKGadoua.

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Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia joins a daylong worldwide prayer for peace Jan. 26.

Feb 25, 2022

US-based Ukrainian archbishop decries 'completely senseless' war

Philadelphia Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak stands as a strong U.S. Ukrainian Catholic voice sharing the Eastern European nation's painful history and boosting its potential as a dynamic, democratic state.

Aug 13, 2021

Walk in Syracuse, NY, honors victims, survivors of residential schools

More than 100 people walked about 6 miles from the Onondaga Nation to Columbus Circle in downtown Syracuse to honor victims and survivors of residential schools for Indigenous children.

An offering is seen at the site of the former Brandon Indian Residential School June 12, 2021. Researchers — partnered with the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation — located 104 potential graves at the site in Brandon, Manitoba. (CNS/Reuters/Shannon VanRaes)

Jul 09, 2021

Bishop supports apology on papal bulls that justified Indigenous oppression

Bishop Douglas Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis "to re-examine" 15th-century Vatican documents that justified colonization, land takeovers and oppression of Indigenous peoples.

At a 2013 event at Le Moyne College called "Listening to the Wampum," Oren Lyons holds the Jesuit Belt, or the Remembrance Belt, which depicts the history of contact between French Jesuits and the Onondaga in the 1650s. (Michael Davis)

May 18, 2018

Honoring Onondaga's Oren Lyons, Le Moyne grapples with Jesuit history

The Native leader is receiving an honorary degree from Le Moyne, in a recognition of the role the Jesuits — and the college's namesake — played "on the frontiers of colonization."

Bishop Robert Cunningham speaks at a Feb. 14 press conference announcing the Syracuse Diocese's Independent Reconciliation Compensation Program for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. (YouTube/Syracuse Diocese)

Feb 16, 2018

Syracuse program gives abuse victims until May 16 to file claims

Bishop Robert Cunningham announced on Ash Wednesday that the Syracuse Diocese has established an Independent Reconciliation Compensation Program for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

Jul 27, 2015