Addressing effects of slavery calls for looking ahead, panelists say May 5, 2021By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News The work of Georgetown University and the Jesuits in reckoning with the history of owning and selling enslaved people may hold lessons for the rest of the Catholic Church and American society, said several panelists at an April 29 discussion at the university.
Racism and the impact of words May 2, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Racial Justice Racism isn’t something that happens to other people. It affects all of us—and each of us plays a part in naming it, opposing it, and changing what we can.
Church called to lead the difficult work of overcoming structural racism April 28, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News As the guilty verdicts were read April 20 in the trial of a white former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd, Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, “could hear the rumble of a collective exhalation” across the New Orleans campus.
Archbishop Lori calls ruling “just” as former police officer found guilty on all three counts in death of Floyd April 20, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, World News “As citizens, we must insist on the elimination of all forms of racism in our societal structures,” Archbishop Lori said.
Archbishop Hebda encourages prayers, peace after fatal police shooting April 13, 2021By Joe Ruff Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Uncategorized, World News After a night of protests and vandalism April 11 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, following the police shooting of Daunte Wright, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis urged prayers for justice and peace.
Archbishop Lori, bishops and Catholic groups pray for end to anti-Asian hate crimes, violence April 1, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice “Whether blatantly acted out in violence or more quietly through long-sustained prejudices, racism and hatred must be exposed and condemned,” said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori.
Catholic leaders welcome move to ditch ‘Maryland, My Maryland’ March 22, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice Father Raymond Harris, pastor of Holy Family in Randallstown and a member of Archbishop William E. Lori’s working group on racism, said he can’t understand why any Marylander today would want to sing a song that celebrates the Confederacy.
A song for Mother Tolton March 18, 2021By Shannen Dee Williams Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice This March, as we celebrate Women’s History Month, let us pledge to rediscover and remember the lives and labors of the Black women, like Mother Tolton, who in the face of unyielding discrimination fought to make the church in the United States truly Catholic.
Jesuits pledge $100 million to benefit descendants of enslaved people March 16, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News The Jesuit order is pledging to raise $100 million for descendants of enslaved people once owned and sold by their order as a way to make reparations and also help the nation move toward racial healing.
Baltimore-based Josephites, zealous promoters of devotion to St. Joseph, elated by year dedicated to the saint March 16, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Radio Interview, Saints, Year of St. Joseph “We’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” said Father Fest, a former longtime pastor of St. Veronica in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore who now serves as pastor of St. Joseph in Alexandria, Va. “St. Joseph is finally getting his due.”
Young Mother Lange honoree keeps busy helping others February 22, 2021By Kyle Taylor Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice Whether it’s at school, church or in his spare time, Kyle Alexander wears a number of metaphorical hats. A parishioner of St. Bernardine in West Baltimore and a senior at Mount St. Joseph High School, Alexander volunteers on various projects, groups and committees.
On ‘Today’ show, Cardinal Gregory reflects on his faith journey, racism February 17, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News In a Feb. 15 segment for the “Today” show’s “Changemakers” and “Black Voices” series, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington reflected on his faith journey and on his own experiences with racism.
