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Kaya Oakes

Kaya Oakes’ fifth book, The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In Betweens to Remake the World, was published in December 2021. She teaches nonfiction writing at UC Berkeley.

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Why Crux's Knights of Columbus 'Partnership' is Problematic

On March 14 of this year, the Boston Globe announced it would be pulling the plug on Crux, the Catholic news website it launched in 2014. Crux was headed by John Allen Jr., a veteran church reporter…
Kaya Oakes
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Religion Dispatches

American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

In The Name of God Is Mercy , Pope Francis’ new book, the pontiff does more riffing than writing. The book is based on a series of interviews he gave to Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli, and it…
Kaya Oakes
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Religion Dispatches

#OpenTheseDoors: A Movement to Turn New York’s Closed Churches into Shelters

When the archdiocese of New York announced in 2014 that it would begin closing parishes and merging them with neighboring churches, much of the media coverage was focused on the emotional impact…
Kaya Oakes
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