Father Bryan Massingale: As Black Catholics, we rejoice because we are now visible as never before. We are seen. We matter.
Racial Justice
Posted inFaith, News
In a year full of protests against racism, the first Black U.S. Cardinal comes at a historic moment
“With a very grateful and humble heart, I thank Pope Francis for this appointment which will allow me to work more closely with him in caring for Christ’s Church,” Gregory said in a statement issued by the archdiocese.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Reforms don’t work. The police must be defunded.
The moral legitimacy of modern policing is poisoned by Its racist and anti-worker roots, writes Dwayne David Paul. We must give up the idea that the state provides safety through force and violence.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t abolish the police. Reimagine law enforcement.
Law enforcement in the United States has been tainted by racism, writes Tobias Winright, but we can reimagine and cultivate a new culture of ”just policing.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Five theologians on the biggest takeaways from ‘Fratelli Tutti’
As part of our larger coverage of “Fratelli Tutti,” the latest encyclical letter from Pope Francis, America asked a number of theologians and church experts to contribute a brief response, including their perspectives on its potential impact and its particular areas of import.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Voting Catholic: How can white Catholics become ‘actively anti-racist’?
2020 was a year of reckoning for racial injustice in America. Catholics of color are calling for the church to look in the mirror. Will the church respond and take a prophetic stand?
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
The startling debut of Raven Leilani
As a high school student in a rigorous art program, she had been drawn to Impressionism. Its tension—between precision and subjectivity, seeing clearly and feeling deeply—marks Leilani’s fiction output.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: A new documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. and the F.B.I.’s toxic relationship
The toxic relationship between the F.B.I. and Martin Luther King Jr. is the subject of the highly-anticipated documentary “MLK/FBI.”
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Podcast: Anthea Butler on why religion won’t save us from the sin of racism
Dr. Butler joins the hosts of Jesuitical to discuss this historic moment in our country and church’s reckoning with racism.