With journalistic clarity and spiritual honesty, Dulle recounts her reporting on breaking scandals, analyzes their root causes, examines the Catholic Church’s response, and reflects on how she’s grappled with her own faith on the frontlines of painful truths. Amid her lament and anger over the Church’s wrongdoings, Struck Down, Not Destroyed expresses a deep-seated optimism about the Church’s potential for healing. Dulle highlights breakthroughs in accountability and reform—from the papacy to individual Catholic communities—to reinstitute trust for the 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide.
“We all believed that for the church to move forward in any credible way, it first had to confront the whole truth,” Dulle writes. “That was a sort of mantra … the church needs to face the truth in order to heal.”
Colleen Dulle
Colleen Dulle is a multimedia correspondent covering and analyzing Catholic and Vatican news at America Media, where she hosts and produces the weekly podcast Inside the Vatican. She served as an ABC News Correspondent during the 2025 conclave and has commentated on Vatican news for MSNBC, the BBC, and CBC among others. Colleen’s work has earned regional and national accolades from the Catholic Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Louisiana/Mississippi Associated Press Media Editors. She was three times named the Catholic Media Association Multimedia Journalist of the Year. Her debut book, Struck Down, Not Destroyed, released August 12, 2025.
