Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice
As our nation and church continue to suffer the lethal effects of their ongoing failures to fully acknowledge and atone for centuries of slavery and segregation, the new Norman Francis Parkway is an important beacon of hope.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice
Kendi sees the effect of the pandemic on Black people as but just one example of how systemic racism is a threat to a whole people. It’s another reason the nation must dismantle racist policies.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a standing ovation from fellow parishioners of St. Brigid Church in Los Angeles for reciting a poem she wrote about the Josephite parish.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice
The cavalier use of racist language in our public discourse, the rise of an emerging nationalism built upon anti-immigrant sentiments and the disdain for people who struggle with poverty, among other sociocultural misfits in our day, demand a communal examination of conscience.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News
With “social injustice, division and conflict” threatening the common good, people need to rediscover and recommit to the vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to work nonviolently for harmony and equality for all, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice
In a racially and economically tumultuous year that saw a significant rise in calls for the church to acknowledge and make reparations for its largely unreconciled practices of slavery and segregation, the loss of Sister Reginald, and her expertise in African American Catholic history, was especially wrenching.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Gloria Purvis, who was told after the Dec. 30 broadcast of the EWTN radio show “Morning Glory” that the show was canceled effective immediately, said she has no regrets using the show to discuss racial matters following the police killing of George Floyd last May.
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