Racial identity shapes people’s lives in a thousand and one ways, writes Holly Taylor Coolman, who describes the challenges for white parents adopting a Black or biracial child.

In an-all white suburb of Detroit, waving the Confederate flag at football games was a tradition during the 1970s. Looking back, William Collins Donahue realizes that the practice was not so innocent.

As Mississippi puts away the Confederate stars-and-bars, native son Jeremy Zipple, S.J., reflects on the heavy silence around racism that prevailed during his childhood.

Having been raised in mostly Black churches, Tevin Williams found and embraced Catholicism. But he writes that the church must make it a priority to address racism.

If our first instinct is to defend “the church,” have we really learned the lessons of the sexual abuse crisis?

The Supreme Court decision is a major win for school choice advocates and the church’s efforts to serve poor and marginalized communities, writes Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.