Kathleen Hill

Kathleen Hill is the author of two novels, Still Waters in Niger and Who Occupies This House, as well as a memoir, She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons. She teaches in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Pilgrims

Had I known before that the greatest gift of the road was the love of another human being? Of course I had. But I had not fully understood.

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Why I Left the Church...and Returned

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

February 25, 2019

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