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Cassidy Klein

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Chicago
As seen in: U.S. Catholic, Sojourners, Messy Jesus Business
Covers:  Religion, art, culture, LGBTQ+ justice.
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Cassidy Klein’s Biography

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Cassidy Klein (b. 1997) is a freelance journalist and editorial assistant at U.S. Catholic magazine. She studied journalism and philosophy at PLNU in San Diego. She lives in an intentional community with artists, activists, and Catholic Sisters called The Fireplace in Hyde Park, Chicago.

She previously worked as an editorial assistant at Sojourners magazine and has freelanced for local newspapers in San Diego and beyond. She grew up in Denver.

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Queer Catholics had a voice at World Youth Day

Queer Catholics had a voice at World Youth Day

"Even in the hard encounters we had I felt a deep sense of peace through it all, like God was with us."

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Acts of Hope: A Review of "New Rules Next Week: Corita Kent's Legacy Through the Eyes of Twenty A...

Acts of Hope: A Review of "New Rules Next Week: Corita Kent's Legacy Through the Eyes of Twenty A...

In 1965, Kent penned "ten rules," as she referred to them, as an ever-timely, gentle and curious guide to eng…

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'For I Was a Stranger and You Shot Me'

'For I Was a Stranger and You Shot Me'

Christians must oppose the spirit of fear and paranoia that makes shooting strangers so common in the U.S.

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The Queer Orthodox Artist Seeking to 'Make the World an Altar'

The Queer Orthodox Artist Seeking to 'Make the World an Altar'

Art of Marza blends Orthodox iconography and street art to bring hope and beauty to public spaces.

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This youth group crosses parish lines to work for justice

This youth group crosses parish lines to work for justice

A new Catholic organization in Evanston, Illinois works to connect young people's faith with their commitment…

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'Unruly Saint' Explores What Dorothy Day's Biographers Overlook

'Unruly Saint' Explores What Dorothy Day's Biographers Overlook

"There are many excellent biographies of Dorothy Day already written," D.L. Mayfield writes. "This book does …

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How Christians Learned the Wrong Story About Leprosy

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By Cassidy Klein
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One day, after washing the feet and hands of men and women with leprosy, Angela of Foligno, the 13th-century saint and mystic, ate a leperous sore. “We drank the very water with which we had washed him,” she writes. “And the drink was so sweet that, all the way home, we tasted its sweetness and it was as if we had received Holy Communion. As a small scale of the leper’s sores was stuck in my throat, I tried to swallow it.
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One of the First Woman Priests Now Resists ‘Christofascism’ With NAACP

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By Cassidy Klein
| Sojourners Verified
This piece was copublished with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics, policy and power. On “Moral Mondays,” a group of locals—sometimes 10, sometimes 100—gather on the town square in Brevard, N.C., holding signs advocating for voting rights, economic justice, and more. Carter Heyward, an Episcopal priest and vice president of the Transylvania NAACP, which organizes the events, will “often come in her collar with a bright stole on,” said Diane Livingston, an NAACP member.
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What Do You Photograph When Harm Is No Longer Spectacular?

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By Cassidy Klein
| Sojourners Verified
IN A STRIKING photo from August 2015, three kayakers on the Animas River near Durango, Colo., float in a plume of mustard-yellow water. They happened to be on the river the same morning that Environmental Protection Agency workers accidentally ruptured a retaining wall at the abandoned Gold King Mine upstream, sending 3 million gallons of wastewater contaminated with metals into southern Colorado’s rivers.
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