Georgetown University Archives

Church’s historic ties to slavery examined at Independence Day conference

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 11, 2019

Independence Day took on a special poignancy at a conference for African American Catholics held a few miles from the nation’s capital, as participants at a July 4 workshop reflected on the Catholic Church’s connection to what has been called the country’s original sin — slavery.

A matter of faith: Democrats embrace religion in campaign

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jul 8, 2019

While Republicans have been more inclined to weave faith into their rhetoric, particularly since the rise of the evangelical right in the 1980s, several current Democratic White House hopefuls are explicitly linking their views on policy to religious values.

Georgetown students vote for student fee to pay reparations over slavery

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Apr 14, 2019

Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly April 11 to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school.

Jesuit: Without the Amazon, ‘we all go under’

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Apr 2, 2019

The Catholic Church in Honduras, as well as in the Amazon and elsewhere, supports those who suffer because of the situations and consequences caused by the exploitation of natural resources and destruction of the environment.

Women in Amazon take more prominent role in environmental protection

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Mar 26, 2019

Women have increasingly participated as leaders at the national and international level in the Amazon’s environmental activist circles.

Cardinal Bo calls for ‘ecological reparation’ for indigenous peoples

Church in Asia
Mar 23, 2019

A leading Asian cardinal says the world’s resources are at the mercy of a minuscule minority, and the “poor are doubly-condemned by an economy that favors the powerful and a carbon hegemony that destroys their livelihood.”