Charlottesville Archives

Nazism and extreme nationalism ‘must be opposed in word and deed,’ says papal advisor
- Church in the US
- August 16, 2017
“Our country is once again in a moment when the civic and biblical heritage is being attacked and tested,” papal advisor Cardinal Sean O’Malley said in a statement following the violence in Charlottesville. “We need to reassert and reaffirm the belief that one nation is meant to include all: the multiple races, cultures, ethnicities and religions which make up our country.”
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Father of Charlottesville victim calls for forgiveness after death of daughter
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- August 16, 2017
Mark Heyer is the father of Heather Heyer, the 32 year old woman who was fatally hit by a car after the “Unite the Right” rally near the University of Virginia on Saturday. He says God has called on him to forgive the man who killed his daughter.
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Being an American Christian after Charlottesville
- Church in the US, Commentary
- August 16, 2017
For those of us who exist in the realms of privilege because of our race, gender, material wealth, or education, the only Christian response to Charlottesville and Ferguson is solidarity with our brothers and sisters who suffer, even to the point of putting our very selves physically on the front lines in the spirit of the one whom we follow.
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Gregory on Charlottesville: Bishops must speak, because silence is approval

August 15, 2017

Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, the highest-ranking African-American prelate in America, said on Monday that all bishops in the country, including those who lead dioceses without tremendous racial diversity, have to speak out in the wake of Charlottesville — because, he warned, silence will be seen as approval.

Post-Charlottesville, ending ‘invisibility’ of African-American Catholics

Analysis

August 14, 2017

In the wake of Saturday’s carnage in Charlottesville, Virginia, it’s clearer than ever that American society desperately needs help on race. The Catholic Church has unique resources to deploy, but it can’t afford to allow its own African-American community and leadership to remain “invisible”, as one African-American bishop recently described it.

U.S. bishops explicitly reject ‘racism, white supremacy and neo-nazism’

On Sunday, the leadership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops got explicit, issuing a second statement on the violence in Charlottesville, Viriginia, within 24 hours, this one specifically condemning “the evil of racism, white supremacy and neo-nazism.”