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	Jason Berry to Receive Moses Berkman Memorial Journalism Award Trinity College October 4, 2010 http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/092910_JasonBerry.htm What: Jason Berry, an investigative reporter who has written extensively about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, will deliver a lecture entitled, “The Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal.” He will also be present at a screening of his award-winning film, Vows of Silence. Both events are free and open to the public. The lecture will be followed by a reception. When: The lecture will be given on Wednesday, October 6 at 4:15 p.m. The movie will be shown on Tuesday, October 5 at 7:30 p.m. Where: The lecture will take place in the Rittenberg Lounge in Mather Hall on the Trinity campus. The movie will be shown at Cinestudio, also on the Trinity campus, 300 Summit Street. Background: Berry has been chosen as the third recipient of the Moses Berkman Memorial Journalism Award in recognition of his exceptional career and his investigative work in connection with the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. The Berkman Award is supported by The Moses and Florence Berkman Endowed Fund at Trinity, established in honor of the late Moses Berkman ‘20. Moses Berkman was an outstanding journalist who was a political correspondent, columnist, and editorial writer at The Hartford Times from the early 1920s until his death in 1956. Berry achieved prominence for his reporting on the Catholic Church crisis with his 1992 book, Lead Us Not Into Temptation. His other books include Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II (co-authored by Gerald Renner, onetime religion reporter for The Hartford Courant); Up From the Cradle of Jazz; and Amazing Grace: With Charles Evers in Mississippi. As a journalist, he has written for The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, National Catholic Reporter, and has served as a consultant for ABC News. Locally, his articles for The Hartford Courant (with Gerald Renner) broke the 1997 story of the sexual abuse of minor seminarians by Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the wealthy and powerful conservative order, the Legionaries of Christ. Vows of Silence is a film documentary based on the book of the same name. It examines the Vatican’s system of justice involving the sex abuse crisis. Berry has been interviewed by members of the national media, marked by appearances on Nightline, the Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC and CNN. USA Today called Berry “the rare investigative reporter whose scholarship, compassion and ability to write with the poetic power of Robert Penn Warren are in perfect balance.” Berry received a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship for research on jazz funerals, a 1992 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for reporting on Louisiana demagogues, and the Saint Catherine of Siena Distinguished Lay Person Award by Voice of the Faithful, the national Catholic reform organization. His play, Earl Long in Purgatory, won a 2002 Big Easy award for Best Original Work in Theatre. He is also the author of Last of the Red Hot Poppas, a comic novel about Louisiana politics. Berry lives in New Orleans. For more information about Jason Berry, please visit: http://www.jasonberryauthor.com/about.html. For more information about Berry’s appearance, call 860-297-2353.
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