Courtney Dorning
Stories
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What Pope Leo XIV means for the LGBT community
Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?
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Can the new pope inspire young Catholics?
How are young Catholics thinking about the American Catholic church during the papal transition. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to the hosts of American Magazine's Jesuitical podcast.
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His Catholic prayer app is one of the world's most popular. What's his conclave take?
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the CEO of the Hallow app, a Catholic prayer app, about the next pope.
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This priest has focused on the LGBTQ community. Here's what he thinks of the conclave
Pope Francis worked to make the Catholic church more open to the LGBTQ community than ever. On the eve of the papal conclave, Scott Detrow speaks with the Rev. James Martin about what happens now.
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Lifting the curtain on the conclave with author Robert Harris
As the world waits for the papal conclave to get underway, Scott Detrow speaks with Robert Harris, the author who dramatized the process in the book Conclave.
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Autism community advocate reacts to RFK Jr. autism announcement
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism.
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What makes a protest successful?
In the decades since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, many Americans have tried to use the model of protest to achieve their political goals. But do protests work?
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'Notes to John' completes late author Joan Didion's trilogy on grief
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Knopf publisher Jordan Pavlin and Shelley Wanger, Joan Didion's longtime editor and head of the Didion trust about the new book Notes to John.
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'I'm praying to him today': Nancy Pelosi remembers Pope Francis
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Speaker of the House Emerita Nancy Pelosi about her experiences meeting Pope Francis and his legacy.
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Pope Francis has died. What happens now?
Father Tom Reese of Religion News Service talks about the death of Pope Francis and the upcoming process to elect his successor.
