Category: Racial justice

Pax Christi USA has remained persistent in pursuit of peace for 50 years

by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2022 | anti-racism, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Economic justice, News, Pacem in Terris, Pax Christi, Racial justice | 0 |

Fifty years ago as the Vietnam War raged and the nuclear arms race remained in high gear, visions of a U.S. Catholic peace movement were taking shape, looking to help the Catholic Church become a peace church.

Oregon man’s vendor website, other initiatives aim to advance justice

by bcadmin | May 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Oregon, Racial justice, Social Justice | 0 |

All Douglas Tsoi wants is an economy that runs according to the law of divine grace.

Catholic author of Black Lives Matter book sees hope amid ongoing struggles

by bcadmin | Apr 3, 2022 | Black Catholics, Black Lives Matter, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Racial justice | 0 |

When journalist Olga M. Segura initially set out to write a book on Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church, she intended it to be more of an overview that might prompt white Catholics to get more involved in the work of racial justice.

Research shows original congregations of Sisters of Charity owned slaves

by bcadmin | Feb 16, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic nuns, Church History, Church in the US, Daughters of Charity, Maryland, News, Racial justice, Religious Sisters, slavery | 0 |

New research from public records and congregation and diocesan archives has found that six congregations of the Sisters of Charity Federation have predecessors who owned slaves.

Protest in church by Black activists divides Catholics in Brazil

by bcadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | Black Lives Matter, Brazil, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Racial justice, Racism | 0 |

A protest of Black activists against the killing of a Congolese refugee in Brazil ended up with a church being occupied by a number of protestors at the end of Mass.

Brutal killing of Congolese refugee causes outrage in Brazil

by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Black Catholics, Brazil, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Racial justice, Racism, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |

The brutal beating to death of a Congolese refugee at a beach kiosk in Rio de Janeiro has spurred outrage in Brazil.

Black Catholic leaders fear demise of quota law for Brazilian universities

by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | Black Catholics, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Racial justice, Racism | 0 |

Ten years after being implemented, a racial quotas system in Brazil is set to end in 2022 and proponents fear that conservative President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies in Congress will not extend the program.

Racial reconciliation ‘is a matter of the heart,’ Texas bishop says

by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Bishop Brendan Cahill, Bishop Curtis J. Guillory, Black Catholics, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father Augustus Tolton, News, Racial justice, Racism, Texas | 0 |

“Racial reconciliation — reconciliation in general — is a matter of the heart,” retired Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont, Texas, said during a recent night of prayer and discussion about race relations in the U.S.

Archbishop: Arbery verdict does not bring him back, but advances justice

by bcadmin | Nov 26, 2021 | Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, Archdiocese of Atlanta, Black Lives Matter, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, lead, News, Racial justice | 0 |

Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer said the convictions of three white men for the 2020 murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery “does not bring him back. It does not bridge the racial divide in our community.

Ky. congregation confronts its slaveholding past, works for racial justice

by bcadmin | Oct 27, 2021 | Archdiocese of Louisville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Kentucky, News, Racial justice, Racism, Religious Sisters, slavery | 0 |

Walking Together: Pilgrimage for Racial Justice” on Oct. 16 included a panel of Sisters of Charity discuss their congregation’s own pilgrimage – from its early years as slaveholders to its efforts today for racial justice.

Effort needed to bridge racial divide in church, society, says Black bishop

by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2021 | Bishop Edward Braxton, Black Catholics, Black Lives Matter, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Racial justice, Racism, University of Notre Dame | 0 |

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.

Ecumenical service remembers victims of Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Bishop David Konderla, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Tulsa, News, Oklahoma, Racial justice | 0 |

Ahead of a May 30 ecumenical prayer service to recall the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Bishop David A. Konderla said it was important “to pause and reflect on how such an unspeakable horror could take place so that we can avoid any such evil in our own day.”