James Carroll won a 2012 Howard Scripps Award for commentary for the following Boston Globe columns.

The church’s lost revolution (Sept. 30, 2012)

Birth control and church’s power grab (Feb. 20, 2012)

A leap for mankind, but in which direction (Sept. 3, 2012)

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Mike Wallace and his blues brothers (April 16, 2012)

Just a barefoot farm boy (April 23, 2012)

How family lore shapes character (Oct. 8, 2012)