Bishops overwhelmingly approve pastoral letter against racism

The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved a pastoral letter against racism Nov. 14 during their fall general meeting at Baltimore.

Racism pastoral letter aimed to help eliminate sin of hate

In 2001, on the 33rd anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Cardinal Francis George released a pastoral letter exhorting the faithful in the Archdiocese of Chicago to work to eliminate the sin of racism.

No Catholic MLKs?

There is an enduring myth that African-American Catholics were largely absent from the freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in the legal demise of Jim Crow segregation.

To move forward, look back

“Don’t look back; something might be gaining on you,” the great pitcher and baseball wit Satchel Paige famously said. Whether he intended to or not, Paige captured in that quip a key facet of the American character: a skepticism about reflection, introspection and self-examination. Americans are, by attitude, an anti-historical lot who have preferred to look ahead — to the next horizon, the next piece of open or cleared territory, the next potential enterprise. Look back and something — an uneasy conscience, an inconvenient memory of an historical wrong — might overtake you.

Bishops form new body to address 'sin of racism'

Saying there is an "urgent need" to address "the sin of racism" in the country and find solutions to it, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has established a new Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism and named one of the country's African-American Catholic bishops to chair it.

One human family

Over the past few weeks at Mass, we have been reading from the prophet Isaiah. He reminds the people that while they are the chosen race, from the beginning God desired the unity of all peoples.

Cardinal Cupich on the sin of racism

Over the past few weeks at Mass, we have been reading from the prophet Isaiah. He reminds the people that while they are the chosen race, from the beginning God desired the unity of all peoples.

Reflection on U.S. ‘racial divide' is personal for Belleville Bishop

Belleville, Ill. — In a 19-page reflection on the “racial divide” in the United States, Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, who is African- American, said he twice had been the victim of what he considered to be unjust police attitudes.

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