Some derided the art as contemptuous of God and sacrilegious. What did artist Kelly Latimore intend to convey with the image? Is the picture meant to be a deification of George Floyd?
Racial Justice
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Broadway is (finally) embracing Black writers. But the work of diversifying theater is just getting started.
Can Black writers flourish in a marketplace dictated by white tastes?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Second ‘George Floyd’ Pietà icon stolen from Catholic University
A second painting of Jesus and his mother, Mary, in which Jesus is widely thought to be depicted as George Floyd, has been stolen from the walls of the Catholic University of America’s law school.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
What bell hooks taught a celibate Catholic priest-in-training about racism and feminism
“Reading authors like bell hooks taught me to be alert not only for instances of sexism and racism but for patterns of it,” writes Father James Martin.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
‘They don’t see us’: Lay Catholics urge Pope Francis to recognize African American saints
Out of the more than 10,000 men and women recognized as saints—which includes 11 Americans and a total of 899 that have been canonized by Pope Francis—none are African Americans.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop: Ahmaud Arbery verdict does not bring him back but advances justice
“Let us use this moment to rededicate ourselves to the intentional, difficult and uncomfortable work of naming and eradicating systemic racism,” the Atlanta archbishop said in a statement Nov. 24.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
After Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, faith leaders call for healing
“During times like these with severe division among people and the potential for social unrest, it is important for us to remember Jesus’ commandment to love one another,” Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki said.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Bernice King: We need Christians like my father in today’s social justice movements.
Gloria Purvis talks with Bernice King about how white Christians have responded to racist incidents, the concept of racial colorblindness and the New Testament roots of nonviolent resistance.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Are racial justice movements straying from Catholic tradition — or are Catholic leaders out of touch?
Archbishop José Gomez’s speech on social justice movements displays a lack of understanding of Black Catholics and other groups too often at the margin of the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Willie James Jennings exposes one of academia’s greatest problems: Non-white students don’t feel like they belong.
Willie James Jennings belongs to a guild in which he never felt he belonged. How do we remake the world of theological education when it still holds up what Jennings calls “white self-sufficient masculinity” as the ideal?