Pope Francis has invoked the civil rights crusader in three high-profile messages delivered during his pontificate.
Civil Rights
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Transgender man sues Catholic hospital for refusing sex change surgery
Jionni Conforti’s sex and gender discrimination lawsuit comes as new regulations hailed as groundbreaking anti-discrimination protections for transgender people are under legal attack from religious groups.
Posted inFaith
How the U.S. bishops are planning to bring peace in 2017
The church is at her absolute best when she is a bold and prophetic voice for the power of the love upon which our faith is based.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A Black (and Blue) Lives Matter protest shows how deep the divide is in Chicago
The march and its counter-protest showed the sharp divide in how blacks and whites view the police in a city with few integrated neighborhoods.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson and Father Pfleger lead a protest to end to Chicago’s violence on New Year’s Eve
Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.
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Why New Mexico’s “grocery tax” is going to hurt the poor (and the people trying to feed them)
Archbishop Wester: “Countless nonprofits and civic organizations work to fill food baskets, but some legislators want to take food out of another basket, the grocery basket, with their proposed food tax.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Rooting for the underdog is easy. God asks us to do more.
Accompaniment, unlike charity, can’t be done from a distance.
Posted inArt, Politics & Society
600 years of pain and resilience are on show at the new Museum of African American History.
As the historic presidency of Barack Obama comes to an end, our country is reminded that the African-American story continues to be written today.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Catholic tradition meets Native American spirituality at Dakota Pipeline protest.
The camps of the Dakota protest are places of spiritual education, challenge and growth.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
A pledge to protect ‘Dreamers’
Presidents of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities pledged themselves to “protect to the fullest extent of the law undocumented students on our campuses” and to “promote retention of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program” in a statement released on Nov. 30. The pr