In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation's movement for racial reckoning, the Catholic Health Association of the United States announced an initiative to confront racism in the provision of health care. The initiative was ...
Monsignor Owen Campion recalls a visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He writes: “The ruthless disregard for human life was bad enough, but then the process of execution was directly from the mind of the ...
When the U.S. bishops decided to continue with their annual fall meeting despite a pandemic, they took it online, shortened its length but also its scope, leaving only the most essential matters on the to-do ...
The first day of the virtual fall assembly of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Nov. 16, included discussion about the Vatican report on Theodore McCarrick, the ongoing pandemic and the church's response to racism. The two-day assembly, ...
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, M. Shawn Copeland, the first Black theologian to serve as president of the Catholic Theological Society, spoke about the nation’s failures to address the structural consequences of ...
A new advisory council of 14 Black Catholic priests, deacons and laypeople will look to assist Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia with identifying practical steps to address racism. The Diocese of Arlington recently ...
The Catholic bishops of California have announced a yearlong initiative to address personal and systematic racism, both in the church and wider society. After a Sept. 9 Zoom conference with African American Catholic leaders from their ...
Every year, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus gathers for their annual conference, but this year was notable for several reasons. As has been the case for many conferences, the meeting was entirely virtual because ...
Bishop Shelton J. Fabre's recent call to fast in response to racism on the feast of St. Peter Claver, Sept. 9, was a call to be attentive to the inequalities across society and acknowledge the ...
Father Augustus Tolton, who in 1886 became the first identified Black priest ordained for the United States, challenged the status quo to bring about social change. Father Tolton lived a life of joy, rooted in his ...
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