‘No political party is perfect. I keep saying that no matter who’s in the White House come Nov. 3, Jesus Christ is still on the throne.’
Racial Justice
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Q&A with Bishop Robert Barron: Catholics can dialogue without compromising our beliefs
Bishop Barron on talking to atheists, young people and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
I am a Catholic school parent. Please save our urban schools.
The Covid-19 pandemic is adding to the financial woes of Catholic schools in inner cities. But better management and creative fundraising may save them, writes Lance L. Lee, a parent of two children in Catholic schools.
Posted inFaith, News
Black sisters urge U.S. Catholics, church leaders to do more to end racism
“We are holding up the light,” the sisters said, “against the sin of racism that is still alive and well in the Catholic Church today.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: ‘Antebellum’ reveals the horror of American memory
A Confederate family kidnaps the film’s Black protagonist, Veronica Henley, a modern-day sociologist and New York Times bestselling author played by Janelle Monáe—and enslaves her in the “past.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cities get our attention, but rural America has many of the same challenges
As rural America becomes more diverse, it faces many of the problems associated with big cities, writes Nathan Beacom. The urban-rural divide in our politics does not reflect reality.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What would Jesus say about white privilege?
Khyati Y. Joshi’s new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege.”
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Catholic homeschool curricula has whitewashed world history. Is it too late to fix it?
Catholic homeschooling resources have historically offered a whitewashed, triumphalist account of history.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Report: The death penalty is a ‘descendant of slavery’
Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy: “The death penalty serves as a sort of litmus test for how our nation is making progress to either dismantle or uphold racism.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis urges government leaders to listen to protestors
Pope Francis called on protestors to express their demands “peacefully” and appealed to government leaders to meet their “just aspirations.”