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Pauline O. Hovey

Pauline O. Hovey graduated with a degree in English from the University of Massachusetts. Currently, she is a freelance writer and editorial consultant with many published works in business and trade magazines and diocesan newspapers. She is married with one child and lives in Barboursville, Virginia.

U.S. Sister Dorothy Stang, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is pictured in a 2004 file photo in Belém, Brazil. Feb. 12, 2025, was the 20th anniversary of the killing of Sister Dorothy, a citizen of Brazil and the United States, who spent nearly four decades defending the rights of poor settlers as well as working to save the rainforest from powerful ranchers bent on destroying it. (OSV News photo/Reuters)

Sister Dorothy Stang: Modern-Day Martyr

Pauline O. Hovey August 2, 2025

Murdered for her defense of the farmers and the rainforest of Brazil, this Notre Dame sister died with great courage and faith.

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