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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...

Essay winner: Father Tolton should be a saint because ...

In honor of Black History Month, the archdiocese’s Black Catholic Initiativ...

Students honor first African-American layperson to teach in Catholic schools

In 1951 when Bobbie Hicks joined the staff of St. Elizabeth School in Chicago, Harry Truman was p...

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