Jesuit priest Stan Swamy remains incarcerated in Mumbai after a judge denied his bail request. Father Swamy’s arrest almost six months ago followed a two-year-long period of interrogation, raids of his home and seizure of his personal property, including electronic communications devices.
Civil Rights
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Purity culture, racism and the violence against Asian women in Atlanta
The fatal attack on Asian women in Atlanta was foreseeable, writes Flora x. Tang. It was the product of ideologies that relegate women as the source of blame for men’s desire.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Rep. Joaquin Castro: It’s time for a Latino secretary of agriculture
Congressman Joaquin Castro writes that Arturo S. Rodriguez, former president of the United Farm Workers, would be a champion of social justice as U.S. secretary of agriculture.
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Louisville archbishop: We all must now work together for racial justice
“There is no question that our nation’s original sin of racism continues to destroy and harm the lives of persons of color and that racism extends through so many systems of our society … educational, economic, religious, housing, criminal justice, voting and employment,” Archbishop Kurtz said.
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Chadwick Boseman: Man of faith in real life, ‘Black Panther’ on screen
Chadwick Boseman, who was most known for playing the superhero in the title role of “Black Panther,” was a person of faith from childhood who shared biblical wisdom along the path of his career.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
A final Freedom Ride: Kerry Kennedy remembers John Lewis
I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Editorial: The Supreme Court can’t solve all our moral disputes. It shouldn’t try.
The court is functioning less as a judicial body than as a relief valve for legislative dysfunction and executive overreach.
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Editorial: L.G.B.T. discrimination protections are not a catastrophe for Catholicism.
As with the Obergefell decision, this ruling also affords the church an opportunity to reimagine its public witness.
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Georgetown Law School forum examines reforming, transforming police
If police officers commit crimes while on duty, “the court has put up a number of hurdles to make it difficult to bring injunctive relief against an entire police department.”
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Canadian archbishop: Fight against racism needs ‘personal change of heart’
The Catholic bishops of Canada, in commenting on the protests over George Floyd’s death, are acknowledging that racism isn’t just a U.S. problem, but a Canadian problem as well.