This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with filmmaker and author Gerry Straub about his life making documentaries about extreme poverty around the world.

By Nancy Battick Poor farms or town farms were rural New England’s way of caring for indigent people before today’s welfare ...

The former St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage in Burlington. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger When former residents of Burlington’s long-shuttered St. Joseph’s Orphanage saw how a 2018 BuzzFeed News ...

Apple Podcasts | Spotify A century ago, before the federal government provided social services, most of Minnesota’s counties ran poor farms to house their most impoverished inhabitants. Some residents ...

Survivors of Burlington’s St. Joseph’s Orphanage — a long-shuttered institution with a dark legacy of abuse — gathered with supporters and public officials in Kieslich Park on Friday afternoon to ...

A Colorado man who founded an orphanage in Haiti in the mid-80s was convicted Thursday of sexually abusing numerous boys in his care. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, a Littleton resident, founded the St.

Many former residents of the orphanage reported abuse by Catholic leaders. A memorial honoring residents of the former St. Joseph's Orphanage, where many children described abuse at the hands of ...