The men and women in police uniforms are being unfairly burdened.
Racial Justice
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Black Catholics speak about the trauma of police shootings.
Content related to racism and discrimination can cause issues like anxiety and depression.
Posted inPolitics & Society
White Catholics have ‘to talk about race and to admit their racism’
Why the slow movement toward racial justice in the church?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
‘Soul Weary’ in America: Cell phone videos and cycles of violence
Father Bryan Massingale says that our national inability to confront the social outcomes of racism is a “spiritual cataract.”
Posted inFaith, Features
What can the Catholic Church learn from #BlackLivesMatter?
“Sadly, I personally know black Catholics whose personal experience has led them to believe that their black lives do not really matter to the church.”
Posted inPolitics & Society
Jesuit institutions must do more to undo racism.
How do we claim that we celebrate the fullness of human diversity if we are not passionate advocates for racial equality?
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Yonkers and the ugly politics of ‘not in my backyard’: A recap of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ parts 1 and 2
At the heart of the class combat in “Show Me a Hero” is fear, a fear that is made worse by the fact the black, brown and white residents of Yonkers know very little about one another.
Posted inFaith
Imagining a church that reflects the diversity of its people
An invitation to white Catholics to use their imagination to enter into a role-reversal narrative.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Other Things
Hip-Hop, My First Love
I remember the first time I heard Steely Dan’s “Deacon Blues,” a song about winning and losing in life. I was 10 years old, attempting to explain the lyrics to my father. Sitting across from me in the kitchen of our old apartment, his acoustic guitar across his lap, my father respo
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Growing in Faith
A mother reflects on her daughter’s experience of growing up black and Catholic.