Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is forming a new commission to study the effects of racism in the Church and on the Diocese. He made the announcement Aug. 24 at a specially called Mass for Solidarity and Peace to counter the recent racist overtones of demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va.
When we reflect on the past week, we can truly experience the weariness of the world. After the events in Charlottesville, Va., we as a nation should realize just how fragile national unity can be for some.
The insanity of racism reared its hideous head in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. It is a sad and tragic blemish on what should be the beautiful face of our nation that such racial division should still exist here. We as Americans are better than this and we as Christians must recognize that racism is not only ignorant, but also a sin.
In the aftermath of a chaos- and hate-filled weekend in Virginia, Catholic bishops and groups throughout the nation called for peace after three people died and several others were injured following clashes between pacifists, protesters and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 11 and 12.
Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said a group of fans directed derogatory taunts at him and even threw a bag of peanuts toward him during a recent game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
An alleged racial incident in Marine Park last weekend has drawn the attention of the neighborhood because it involved a white parishioner and a black priest.
by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory Many diseases frighten us. We have learned important details about some of our most virulent illnesses, yet when outbreaks occur, even with our advanced medical discoveries, they can cause uneasiness or even panic.
Religious leaders, civic leaders and community members came together for a conference on “Black and White in America: How Deep the Divide?” in Birmingham, Ala. Brooklynites participated by livestream.
WASHINGTON (CNS) – This year the “hope for a just peace” that is Advent “must face the flagrant failures of a nation still bound by sin, our bondage to and complicity in racial injustice,” said a group of Catholic theologians. “The killings of black men, women and children … by white policemen, and the failures […]
