Calling the 6-to-3 decision handed down Thursday “more than disappointing,” the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities said that the court “ignores the more-than-apparent effects of continued racism in our society.”
Racial Justice
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Affirmative action is Catholic social teaching in action. We still need it.
Thoughtfully administered affirmative action, as endorsed by the U.S. bishops decades ago, is an incontrovertible part of our shared task to fight racism and promote equal opportunity.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Giving birth in the US is too dangerous and deadly. Congress has a chance to change that.
Maternal mortality has reached alarming levels in the U.S., especially in the Black community. The Catholic Health Association strongly supports a package of laws to better care for mothers and infants.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: We don’t need to stop being angry in order to forgive
On the final episode of this season of “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria welcomes Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts to discuss the subject of anger and forgiveness.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: How should Catholic institutions make reparations for the sin of slavery?
Laura Masur joins “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” this week to talk about her work recovering fragments of Black American history from what she calls “sites of memory” or places where enslaved persons dwelled, often in Catholic-run institutions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Remembering John Hope Franklin, the premier historian of the Black experience
John Hope Franklin wrote of the African American struggle for justice for seven decades. At his death, he was called “the first great American historian to reckon the price owed in violence, autocracy and militarism.”
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Cornel West and Robert George on Black history, resistance and joy
In honor of Black history month, two intellectual giants and close friends, Cornel West and Robert George, join “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” to talk about what Black joy and resistance mean to them.
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, Features
Slavery and the Catholic Church: It’s time to correct the historical record
The history of the church was nothing close to a steady, if interrupted, march to eliminate slavery.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Black Catholic artist’s ‘Baltimore Pietà’ reimagines Michelangelo’s masterpiece through the lens of police brutality
Black Catholic artist Wayman Scott’s Baltimore Pietà depicts a Black mother holding her dead son, reframing the famous Michelangelo piece through the lens of police brutality.