Celebrating a special Mass June 18 at Mount Calvary Parish in Forestville to commemorate the next day's Juneteenth federal holiday, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington said that historic event offers an important reminder to work for freedom and justice today.
At 8:24 p.m., on Jan. 7, 2023, a young man named Tyre Nichols was driving home, where he lived with his mother and stepfather, when he was pulled over by police. According to the timelines, one minute later Nichols was yanked from
Catholics "must act" for racial justice, starting with personal conversion, to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle and eliminate racial injustices in society, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of
Following Derek Chauvin's June 25 sentencing for the murder of George Floyd, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis prayed it would "bring a measure of peace and healing" to Floyd's family, his friends "and our community."
At the same time,
George Floyd's death while in police custody a year ago left "a hole in the hearts of his family and friends" and "a hole in the fabric of our society," said the director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of
As we near the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd and the protests sparked by his killing, former EWTN Radio host Gloria Purvis talks with Our Sunday Visitor about the state of race in the country and in the Church.
Ansel Augustine, executive director of the Office of Cultural Diversity and Outreach for the Archdiocese of Washington, writes that for the Church to begin to heal from the sins of racism, it must embrace the gifts that all people and cultures within
Father Augustus Tolton, who in 1886 became the first identified Black priest ordained for the United States, challenged the status quo to bring about social change.
Father Tolton lived a life of joy, rooted in his desire to help others and humbly work
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki prayed for peace and healing at several damaged sites during a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, the scene of four nights of demonstrations following the police shooting of a Black man.
The stops followed an early morning Mass Aug.
The world that college students inhabit looks different this fall than it did in March, when most U.S. campuses were shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States has been roiled by not just the novel coronavirus but also by