MLK and BTW
I’m going to say something shocking about Martin Luther King, Jr., an unintended consequence of his greatness – which is…
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by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2022 | 2022, Booker T. Washington, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision (1954), Columns, Jackie Robinson breaks baseball color barrier (1947), Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and BTW by David Carlin, News, President Truman desegregates armed forces (1948), upward mobility of African Americans | 0 |
I’m going to say something shocking about Martin Luther King, Jr., an unintended consequence of his greatness – which is…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 16, 2022 | Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, justice and peace, Martin Luther King Jr., News | 0 |
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged all people of goodwill to commemorate the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by remembering “not only the justice he pursued, but how he pursued it.”
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James F. Keating: Our racial illuminati see only guilt (whites) and innocence (blacks). Redemption through reconciliation is missing.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Archbishop Gomez, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Featured, Martin Luther King Jr., News, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
In the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “we must meet the forces of hate and ignorance with the power of love,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement for the Jan. 18 federal observance of the slain civil rights leader’s birthday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 18, 2021 | anti-racism, lead, Martin Luther King Jr., News, Nonviolence, peace, Pope Francis, Social Justice, Vatican | 0 |
Amid a modern social and political climate laced with historic levels of vitriol and division, legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offers a message that also hits close to home for Pope Francis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2020 | 2020 election, Associated Press, Church in the US, faith and politics, Martin Luther King Jr., News, poor church, Poverty | 0 |
A coalition of activists, unions, and religious leaders inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last organizing effort said Tuesday new data suggest low-income voters in key states could swing some U.S. Senate races.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2020 | 2020, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, Catholicism, christianity, Christopher Columbus, Columns, Fr. Richard Gennaro Cipolla, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., News, Sweet Chariot”, The Catholic Thing, To My Black Brothers and Sisters, toppled statues, “O Happy Day”, “Swing Low, “There is a balm in Gilead”, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord” | 0 |
Fr. R. G. Cipolla: Beware of those toppling statues in the name of Black Lives Matter. They erase history to achieve goals antithetical to Christianity.
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Eduardo Echeverria: If “white” equates to “racist,” our institutions, though democratic, reflect determinism, and empty our actions of moral responsibility.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2020 | Bernice King, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Martin Luther King Jr., News, Racial justice, Racism | 0 |
The cause of greater justice for all will be best served when people unite with a focus on reaching strategic goals, Bernice King told Vatican News.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | civil rights, Film, Martin Luther King Jr., News, Paul Bukolich, Sean Schiavolin, The Dispatch | 0 |
“You cannot dispel evil with evil—you have to have goodness to dispel evil.” That is how Paul Bukolich, a civil rights activist who participated in a historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | civil rights, From the Vatican, Martin Luther King Jr., News, Pope Francis, United States | 0 |
A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to “dream” of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King sought to do. — Address of His Holiness Pope Fra…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 17, 2020 | Archbishop Jose Gomez, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Martin Luther King Jr., News, USCCB | 0 |
While the United States has “come a long way” in addressing racism and injustice, much more remains to be accomplished to achieve the dream of “the beloved community” envisioned by the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said.
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