He was a priest who argued that the Catholic Church was fundamentally racist, all the while remaining a faithful member of it.
Social Justice
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Martin Sheen: How Mother Teresa, Dan Berrigan’s lawyer and I fought to end the Gulf War
The carnage unleashed in the Persian Gulf compelled me to act yet again in hopes that somehow the bloodletting would end.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Interview: How the Jesuits are working to confront their history of slavery
American Jesuit histories often minimize the important contributions that enslaved people made.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
This retired Black Catholic nurse is on a mission to urge people of color to get Covid-19 vaccine
Joyce Christian understands firsthand why many Black people and other people of color are hesitant and mistrust the medical community.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Remembering Margaret Snyder, Catholic feminist pioneer
A prominent figure in United Nations efforts to help women in Africa escape poverty, Margaret Snyder was inspired by her parents and by Catholic mentors from her hometown.
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about Inequality
Our nation has an empathy gap.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Read: Pope Francis’ Lenten message for 2021
God’s forgiveness, offered also through our words and actions, enables us to experience an Easter of fraternity.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pope Francis has criticized both the left and the right’s politics. Community organizing offers a third way
Pope Francis challenges us to reject the selfishness of fake populism, write two veterans of social justice campaigns. Community organizing can help us build a different kind of politics.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We can hold Trump accountable and still have national unity. Just ask St. Augustine and Pope Francis.
President Biden called for national unity in his inaugural address, but vengeance is not the way to repair public trust, writes Kathleen Bonnette. Restorative justice is a better way toward flourishing for all.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
After coup in Myanmar, Cardinal Bo calls for calm, release of prisoners and urges West to avoid sanctions
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo appealed to the people of Myanmar “to remain calm” and not resort to violence in the wake of the military coup.