A former president of Georgetown remembers the legendary coach John Thompson Jr.
Black Catholics
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Reading John Howard Griffin’s challenging ‘Black Like Me’
Kevin Spinale, S.J., offers his initial thoughts on John Howard Griffin’s ‘Black Like Me,’ the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
Posted inArts & Culture, News Analysis
Loyola University Maryland defends decision to remove Flannery O’Connor’s name from dorm
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, a former Loyola professor, is spearheading an effort for the university to reconsider its decision.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishops to Congress: Help Black families meet children’s educational needs
“Catholic schools are facing a crisis at this very moment,” the three bishops said. “Over 130 schools have already announced permanent closure. These closures are disproportionately harmful to low-income and Black children.”
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Catholic schools have ignored Black Catholic history. Is that changing?
Amid the national tumult over racial injustice, there are high-level calls for the schools to teach more about the church’s past links to slavery and segregation, and how Black Catholics persevered nonetheless.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
We need to teach more Black literature in Catholic schools
72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.
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Black Lives Matter movement gives Catholics opportunity to join fight against racism, bishop says
Black Catholics believe that the time is now for the church to have a long-overdue reassessment over its role with racism and racial injustice.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Lil Wayne’s latest album tells us about Black death in 2020
Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.
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Black Catholic community hopeful activism will bring ‘season of change’
Black Catholics in the United States are commenting on what they hope will happen in the church and as well as society as a whole as a result of the recent racial unrest and protests.
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Fighting racism means putting faith in action, say Black Catholics
The recent racial unrest has special poignancy for Black Catholics, who wish and work for change not only in American society, but in the Catholic Church as well.