In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, David Mills shares the testimony of Deacon Matthew Hawkins, who recounts an experience of being stopped by police on the street for being suspected of a crime. Taken aback by the policeman’s orders, Hawkins said
Monsignor Owen F. Campion recalls his education in Nashville at Father Ryan High School, which was the first school in the former Confederacy to drop the racial segregation restriction that was mandated by law in the South. He writes that there was
The Catholic Church in the United States is wrangling with its complicated history and mixed legacy on slavery and racial discrimination, writes Brian Fraga. Leaders in the Church say that in order to move forward, the Church needs to continue to acknowledge
While the United States has "come a long way" in addressing racism and injustice, much more remains to be accomplished to achieve the dream of "the beloved community" envisioned by the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the president of the U.S.
One year after the U.S. bishops approved their pastoral letter against racism, the document is hardly just sitting on a shelf but is the basis for listening sessions in dioceses around the country and is an educational tool for individuals, schools and
WASHINGTON (CNS) — It’s a pastoral letter that pulls no punches, goes far into the past and continues up to the recent present of racism at the U.S.-Mexico border. Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, released a pastoral letter Oct.
Writing a new pastoral letter will not end racism in the United States, but Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, hopes it can be a step in that direction. “The pastoral letter was an effort of the bishops to add
In their new pastoral letter on racism, the Catholic bishops in the United States seek to acknowledge the reality of racism and the Church’s complicity in racial prejudice while calling on Catholics to come together and find solutions. The letter, entitled “Open
Solution is not to ban classic works with social sins but to educate on the historical realities, values
Fewer than 10 months after being appointed chair of a new Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop George V. Murry, SJ, of Youngstown, Ohio, has stepped down to undergo intense chemotherapy following a diagnosis