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School leaders gather to discuss diversity, equity, inclusion

Catholic high school leaders from the Archdiocese of Chicago gathered at DePaul College Prep Oct. 14 to discuss their efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in their schools.

Prayers for healing, justice mark ‘painful’ anniversary of Floyd’s death

George Floyd’s murder a year ago left “a hole in the hearts of his family and friends” and “a hole in the fabric of our society,” said the director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd May 25, the first anniversary of Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

St. Benedict Parish invites community to remember George Floyd

On May 25, the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, St. Benedict Parish, 2215 W. Irving Park Road, hosted an ecumenical prayer service on the church’s front steps. After the service, participants lined the busy thoroughfare with signs promoting racial justice.

Fired EWTN host: ‘I will never, ever, ever have regrets’ talking about race

Gloria Purvis, who was told after the Dec. 30 broadcast of the EWTN radio show “Morning Glory” that the show was canceled effective immediately, said she has no regrets using the show to discuss racial matters following the police killing of George Floyd last May.

Listening is key to bishops’ committee against racism, says new chair

Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, the newly appointed chair of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he looks forward to serving the bishops in this role as Catholic church leaders continue to respond to the “sin” of racism.

Paying down the debt

On a Saturday morning not long ago, I was giving a lesson on black history to a group of African-American boys, students in the Freedman Academy, an activity sponsored by my local chapter of the mentoring group 100 Black Men of America.

Quiet witnesses of hope: 2017’s Oscar nominees

Much has been made of the great diversity of this year’s Oscar nominees. Following two years in w...

Vigil for peace to be held Sept. 8 at Holy Name

On July 8, in his initial response to the racially related shootings in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis a...

Catholics take part in 50th anniversary of King march

Louis Woodland was serving in Vietnam in 1966 when Martin Luther King Jr. led a march on Aug. 5 t...

Belleville bishop addresses race issues in U.S.

Catholics have a responsibility to work to bridge the racial divide that is tearing the United St...
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