Archbishop José Gomez’s speech on social justice movements displays a lack of understanding of Black Catholics and other groups too often at the margin of the church.
Racial Justice
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Willie James Jennings exposes one of academia’s greatest problems: Non-white students don’t feel like they belong.
Willie James Jennings belongs to a guild in which he never felt he belonged. How do we remake the world of theological education when it still holds up what Jennings calls “white self-sufficient masculinity” as the ideal?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Advocates urge Pope Francis to canonize 6 Black U.S. Catholics: ‘If not now, when?’
A grassroots movement is calling on the church to move forward with the sainthood causes of six African-American Catholics.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop Gomez: The church must confront ‘woke’ social justice movements that aim to ‘cancel’ Christian beliefs
The Catholic Church must proclaim Jesus Christ “boldly” in the face of new secular movements that promote “social justice,” and “wokeness” as the answer to all of society’s ills, Archbishop José H. Gomez said.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis’ 9 commandments for a just economy
Pope Francis, in a keynote address to the popular movements this weekend, made specific appeals “in the name of God” to those responsible for key sectors of today’s world economy.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishop Braxton: The Catholic Church ‘was largely on the wrong side of history’ on racism
The racial divide in American society and within the Catholic Church is one that needs to be bridged so that healing and progress can take place, said retired Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
What it means to be ‘woke’ and Catholic
Woke Catholics are people who are open to conversion. They listen. They are humble. They think with the mind and heart of the church.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
White Catholics today condemn slavery. But are they ready to fight its new manifestation—mass incarceration?
While American Catholics today would unequivocally condemn the institution of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, most do not see or work against one of its most prominent present-day manifestations: mass incarceration.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What my students have taught me about suffering
I don’t understand why some of my students are allowed to suffer as he did. But the knowledge of Christ’s death stanches my anger long enough that I am able to entertain the idea that there is still a point to serving this God.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Black Lives Matter and the call to conversion
Olga Segura’s book charts her personal journey of resisting systemic racism and her pain at finding herself unaccompanied on that path by many Catholics or by the institutional church.