“Every time you shout ‘White Power!’ you might as well be shouting ‘Crucify him!’ And any time you lift your hand in a Nazi salute, you might as well be lifting your hand to nail Jesus to the Cross.”
Racial Justice
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
How the Catholic response to Charlottesville moved from pleas for unity to condemnations of racism
A second statement from the U.S. bishops read: “We stand against the evil of racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic bishops condemn white supremacist rally that left one dead in Charlottesville
The U.S. bishops “stand with all who are oppressed by evil ideology.”
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Remembering Michael Brown and Ferguson with Rev. Broderick Greer
Three years ago this week, on Aug. 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an African-American teen in Ferguson, Mo. On this episode, we talk with the Rev. Broderick Greer, an Episcopalian priest in Memphis, Tenn., who boarded a bus and headed to Ferguson following Mr. Brown’s death.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Remembering Michael Brown and Ferguson with Rev. Broderick Greer
Three years ago this week, on Aug. 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an African-American teen in Ferguson, Mo. Within 24 hours of the shooting the Ferguson uprising began. On this episode, we talk with the Rev. Broderick Greer, an Episcopalian priest in Memphis, Tenn., who boarded a bus and […]
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Trump’s “us-versus-them” rhetoric hurts police and black lives
Brutality, corruption and an “us-versus-them” mentality in the ranks undermine what is for many officers a sincere vocation to protect and serve.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
‘Act justly, love goodness’: Black Catholics in America
The Catholic Church in the United States boasts 71 million members, 2.9 million of whom are black. Representatives from that vibrant community met in Orlando in July for the National Black Catholic Congress. The event concluded with the prophet Micah’s call to “act justly, love goodness and walk humbly with your God.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When the K.K.K. came to town, Catholics prayed. Now what?
The church’s opposition to racism should be a consistent and constant force in our country.
Posted inFaith, News
Braxton: Micah’s words on justice, love must be ‘written in our hearts’
The bishop urged the attendees that they could all do something to know their own history and to be engaged in the community.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Making it in the (secular) (white) media as a Catholic Latina
This week, we talk Latina identity, journalism and more with Juleyka Lantigua-Williams. She is the former senior supervising producer and editor of NPR’s Code Switch and a former staff writer at The Atlantic. She has covered issues ranging from women’s rights at home and abroad, environmental justice, U.S. immigration policy, poverty, maternal health, early childhood development […]