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.”
Racial Justice
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.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How Jesuit universities are confronting implicit bias in campus security
While deaths at the hands of police make headlines, the problem of implicit bias in policing and security for most Black Americans is experienced as a daily psychic burden.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How Latino Catholics are grappling with their own history of racism
The United States is going through a national examination of conscience on the question of race, and the Latino community is no exception.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How Milwaukee-area Catholic leaders are responding to the Jacob Blake shooting and protests
Church leaders call for peace but also renewed efforts against racism during a week of protest and violence after a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Emmett Till’s faithful mother is the saint we need in the fight for racial justice
Mamie Till Mobley understood something our sanitized pictures of Jesus hide: that the suffering of Jesus continued in the death of her son and is ongoing in the death of George Floyd.
Posted inFaith, News
Archbishop Gregory on today’s March on Washington: The church needs to do more for racial justice
“I don’t think we can take our foot off the pedal. We are doing a credible job; we need to do more.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New Orleans renames street to honor longtime Xavier U. president
The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Aug. 20 to rename Jefferson Davis Parkway in honor of Norman C. Francis, former president of Xavier University of Louisiana.
Posted inFaith, Features
‘The Melting Pot’ is an outdated image of America. We need a new metaphor to define the nation.
What kind of people will we be, not only at the end of the Covid-19 storm but throughout the journey?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Why ‘feeling right’ on race is not—and has never been—enough
In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe made feeling right on race easy, righteous and comfortable, all at once. We face the same trap today.