Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Respect Life, World News
In her Zoom presentation for The Catholic University of America Feb. 9, Abby Johnson didn’t address the controversy that had preceded her appearance.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice
On March 2, 1955, Claudette was a 15-year-old frightened Black girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was jailed nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same civil disobedience, but not in the same way.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Racial Justice
Seeing the Ellsworth Cemetery – a place of historic racial significance in Carroll County – in such a state of disarray did not sit well with Thomas Greul. He saw a wrong that needed to be righted, and got to work.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation’s movement for racial reckoning, the Catholic Health Association of the United States announced an initiative to confront racism in the provision of health care.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, Racial Justice
I am hopeful that the racism initiative will assist with ending the pattern of disregard seen too often displayed for Black lives. I hope this effort is a journey for the Archdiocese of Baltimore instead of just a project.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Racial Justice
Even those who have never participated in a protest can also lose sight of his nonviolent message by engaging in partisan bickering, by harboring angry thoughts or by choosing words that wound no less than swords.
