Jesuit colleges and universities can and must embrace anti-racism efforts by drawing from our mission.
Racism
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
Catholics cannot ignore the harm caused by Kanye West
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Binta Niambi Brown, a talent manager in the music and entertainment industry, about the need for Catholics to denounce Kanye West’s anti-Black and antisemitic remarks.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic Republicans must denounce Donald Trump’s meeting with antisemites
As a Catholic and a Republican, I can say without a doubt that Nick Fuentes does not represent the values of either group.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: An honest look at slavery in the Christian tradition
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria interviews Chris Kellerman, S.J., about his new book, ‘All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism and The Catholic Church.’
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: Fighting racism in our hospitals
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Dr. Amanda Joy Calhoun about the deep vestiges of racism in our medical institutions and the strategies she is using to challenge them in her own practice.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The spiritual depths of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison’s fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Unveiling the history of Black Catholic nuns: Shannen Dee Williams’s ‘Subversive Habits’
Shannen Dee Williams’s ‘Subversive Habits’ uncovers—with authoritative, painstaking scholarship—a great deal of what was hidden and some of what has been erased concerning white supremacy in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Podcast: Cornell Brooks, former head of the NAACP, on the church and justice for Black lives
When it comes to social justice issues, “the church can show up as moral first responders or as funeral directors,” says Cornell Brooks.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How my father’s racism helped me fight my own
While I will never support my father’s prejudice, I will forever be grateful for the fact that God could work through him to help me find my way.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
3 things the Catholic Church can do to fight racism (besides issuing statements)
It is not enough to issue occasional condemnations of racism. The U.S. church must invest in Black Catholic churches and schools, as well as diocesan offices for Black parishioners.