Book review: Originally published in Russian in 1985, now in English, Svetlana Alexievich's Last Witnesses listens to adults looking back on their experiences as children during World War II in the Soviet Union.
Perspective: Each one breaks my heart. Each one represents a young person who, like me, will spend a long time figuring out that the blame belongs completely to the adult predator.
The Field Hospital: At St. Malachy in the city and at suburban St. Thomas of Villanova, parishioners are pulling together to talk about sex abuse and the cover-up and to push for reform.
On a long, low shelf at Safe Shores in downtown Washington, colorful figurines of wild animals, army soldiers, a winged dragon and an angel appear to be the toy collection of an overly neat child.
A small c catholic: One of my sisters emailed her siblings as this border-crossing story grew hot in the news. "I have a story about being separated from a parent," she told us.
Listen: GSR international correspondent Chris Herlinger talks about reporting from South Sudan; Young Voices columnist Mike Jordan Laskey on how to deepen your Advent this year.
The $2 million gift to Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, seeks to create a national training and resource center for child abuse prevention and response.
