by joscottcoe | Mar 22, 2024 | Culture, history
Last week TIME Magazine published my latest article about how Kathy Leissner Whitman’s testimony still matters to us more than fifty years after her death. You can read the article here: “The Link Between Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings.” It was...
by joscottcoe | Jun 11, 2019 | Culture, history, religion
Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, opening the USCCB General Assembly in November 2018 (photo: Jo Scott-Coe) This week, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) gathers in Baltimore for their spring assembly. Last November, though I was not...
by joscottcoe | Apr 21, 2019 | Culture, history
Yesterday, I had the somber privilege of delivering the keynote speech at a Columbine memorial event organized and hosted by Indivisible 41, March for Our Lives, and Brady United to Prevent Gun Violence. We gathered outside the Riverside Main Library. What...
by joscottcoe | Mar 1, 2019 | Culture, history, Uncategorized
On January 31, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (ADGH) released its list of priests “credibly accused” of abuse since 1950. As I’ve discussed earlier here on the blog, one of those priests was Joseph G. Leduc, a central figure in my book MASS: A...
by joscottcoe | Feb 8, 2019 | Culture, history
In July 2013, on a research visit to Houston for what would become my book, MASS: A Sniper, a Father, and a Priest, I spent much of my time retracing the assignments of Father Joseph Leduc. One week ago, on Jan. 31, Father Leduc was named as one of 40 priests...
by joscottcoe | Jan 31, 2019 | Culture, history
This afternoon, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston released its names of “credibly accused” priests for the diocese, dating from 1950. There were only 40 individuals identified. You can read the full list here. Rev. Joseph Leduc’s name is included...
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