In his new book, ‘The Need to Be Whole,’ Wendell Berry strives to give a glimpse of the undivided foundation that underpins all he has ever tried to think and say.
Race
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Reckoning with the church’s record on slavery: Our readers respond
Read the responses to Christopher J. Kellerman, S.J., on the Catholic Church’s history with slavery. Comments were gathered from the online version of the article.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
I asked an AI art generator to draw the communion of saints. I don’t love what it revealed about the Catholic Church.
What does A.I. paint as the communion of saints? And what does that say about how we have taught it to visualize the saints?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Students ‘no longer members’ of Catholic school after racist video
Students at a Catholic high school in Philadelphia are now “no longer members of the school community” after posting a video in which one of them is in blackface.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Across the U.S., Catholic pilgrims are walking together for racial justice
Modern Catholic Pilgrim, the company organizing these pilgrimages, aims to reform the culture of the American Church—and even secular society—through the spiritual practices of hospitality and pilgrimage.
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St. Ignatius and the spiritual blindness of racism
Today we allow the existence of a societal system that literally kills people of color, through lack of good medical care, unequal legal rights and the effects of poverty. This curse on people of color lives side by side with white Christianity.
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How my father’s racism helped me fight my own
While I will never support my father’s prejudice, I will forever be grateful for the fact that God could work through him to help me find my way.
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The little-known history of a Catholic club that got Coca-Cola to change its racist hiring practices
In the 1950s in Omaha, Neb., the multi-racial DePorres Club realized it needed to escalate its tactics from uplifting the Black community to confronting white discrimination.
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‘Subversive Habits’ tells the compelling and long-overlooked history of Black Catholic nuns
After 14 years of tenacious research, Shannen Dee Williams arguably now knows more about America’s Black nuns than anyone in the world.
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Study: Black U.S. Catholics are the most likely to leave the church. Why?
While Catholics generally are prone to religious switching, Black Catholics have the highest rates. Only 54 percent of U.S. Black Catholics who were raised in the faith remain so as adults.