Since 2016, Rachel L. Swarns has been researching Georgetown University’s involvement in the slave trade, including the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people to help pay off debts the Jesuit priests incurred in running the university.
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The Top 10 Christmas hymns played in churches
Results of a poll of 9,000 Christian churches last December were released this Dec. 1. What Christmas carols made the Top 10?
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Christianity will lose majority status in the U.S. by 2070 if past trends continue
If trends of the past 30 years continue for the next 50, Christianity will lose its majority status in the United States by 2070, according to a new demographic study by the Pew Research Center.
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U.S. bishops praise Congressional bills to help women and families in Labor Day statement
This year’s annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops touts two bills awaiting action in Congress as being helpful to children, women and families: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and an expansion of the federal child tax credit.
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‘An honored friend, a true American, a global citizen:’ Remembering Drew Christiansen, S.J.
Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former editor of ‘America’ who died April 6.
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Tom Quigley, longtime foreign policy adviser to U.S. bishops, dies at 91
Thomas J. Quigley, who worked for 45 years in service to the U.S. bishops, mostly in the realm of foreign policy, died Dec. 11 at age 91.
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Bishop Braxton: The Catholic Church ‘was largely on the wrong side of history’ on racism
The racial divide in American society and within the Catholic Church is one that needs to be bridged so that healing and progress can take place, said retired Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.
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Maryknoll Sisters celebrate 100 years of ministry in China
It was 100 years ago—on Sept. 12, 1921—when the Maryknoll Sisters assigned its first group of sisters to China, the order’s first mission.
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Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president, dies at 72
‘I believe the Catholic Church—my church—ought to be a leader in human rights, which include workers’ rights,’ Trumka told CNS in 2010.
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Survey: Catholic homilies mention politics and racism less than Protestant ones
As the election, the pandemic and racism made headlines across the U.S. last year, priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers.