Church embrace of legendary actor invites perspective on today’s fights
- Jul 5, 2020
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Religious leaders to invoke Frederick Douglass on July 4th
- Jul 4, 2020
About 150 preachers, rabbis and imams are promising to invoke Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass on July 4th as they call for the U.S. to tackle racism and poverty.
Respect, understanding can defeat racism, bigotry, Archbishop Gregory says
- Jul 2, 2020
While America grapples with racism and bigotry and other social ills, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said people must reach out to one another, learn about others different from themselves and rediscover that all religions teach that hatred is wrong.
Women taken from African mothers by Belgium now want redress
- Jul 1, 2020
During colonial times thousands of biracial children known as “métis” were taken away and raised in Belgian institutions as the colonial power promoted a strict separation of white and Black people and systematically tried to prevent interracial unions.
Wisconsin bishop denounces activist’s call to destroy statues of Jesus
- Jul 1, 2020
Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison June 24 denounced comments by a Black Lives Matter activist who said statues of Jesus Christ that depict him “with European features” need to come down “because they support white supremacy.”
‘Black lives matter!’ says Las Vegas bishop in pastoral on racism
- Jun 30, 2020
The “tragic death” of George Floyd, an African American killed while in the custody of a white police officer, “has torn the scab away from the gaping wound of racism that still infects communities across the globe,” said Bishop George L. Thomas of Las Vegas.
Catholic officials defend statue of St. Louis’ namesake
- Jun 29, 2020
Catholic officials say protesters calling for the removal of a statue of St. Louis’s namesake should consider all that the imperfect man did to help the poor and the sick.
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