Can US Catholics attempt racial truth and reconciliation?

NCR Today: We Catholics, white Catholics specifically, need the will to open our eyes and examine our own racist behavior.

Catholics reflect on racial reconciliation in U.S. Church: 'We must be ...

Two prominent Catholic speakers say they have seen an openness among Catholics to acknowledge racism as a sin and as a continued problem in ...

Racism in the United States and Catholic Social Teaching

The Church Condemns Racism · Agreeing that: “Any doctrine of superiority based on the difference between races is scientifically false, morally condemnable and ...

Truth-telling and Healing for Racial Reconciliation

… we Christians need to act to repair the harm that has too often been done in the name of our faith tradition. A few months ago ...

Brothers and Sisters to Us | USCCB

How great the scandal given by racist Catholics who make the Body of Christ, the Church, a sign of racial oppression! Yet all too often the Church in our ...

Communal Guilt and the Black Catholic Experience in America

A number of Catholics tuned into our conversation, listened to our discussion, and learned about practical steps they could take to work towards ...

Can I Do Anything about Racial Reconciliation? Yes, if I have ...

Reconciliation is not simply saying that “racism is a sin.” Though that needs to be stated boldly and clearly to disciples of Christ. Racism is ...

Racial reconciliation 'is a matter of the heart,' Texas bishop says

... African American Catholic studies from Xavier University in New Orleans. ... “So this letter … is an attempt on the part of the bishops to give us ...

Telling the uncomfortable truth about racial reconciliation and the ...

... American Christians and churches are now struggling to strike the right note on racial reconciliation ... People will ask us, where were you?

Racism, Inclusion, and Diversity - Catholic Charities Twin Cities

As our recent pastoral letter on moral values states: “The absence of personal fault for an evil does not absolve one of all responsibility. We must seek to ...

Why I'm Not Giving Up on Racial Reconciliation - Matthew J. Hall

Biblical faithfulness and our witness to the hope of the gospel demand that we do not surrender the language of reconciliation and--even ...

Racial Reconciliation Requires a Painful Level of Self-Awareness

Implicit racial prejudice infects all of us—even us pastors. Rather than passively acquiesce to it, we can combat it through the spiritual habit of racial self- ...

Ignatian Volunteer Corps hosts Jesuit forum on racial reconciliation

... Canada and the United States and current board chair of the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Trust. They discussed the foundation, the ...

A Catholic response to racism

Racism is learned behavior, and Catholics can play a significant role in breaking down the walls of racism by taking a “hands on” approach ...

Jesuit conference president: White American Catholics need to face ...

The Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation, founded in 2019 ... But our greatest challenge may be a lack of faith that racial healing can ...

Racial Reconciliation: The Right and Wrong Way Forward

The Church must stand against “racial bigotry and injustice!” But we must do so from a biblical perspective…not a sociological and culturally popular ...

Racial Reconciliation: A Biblical Framework - Scholars Crossing

See, e.g., Sarah Souli, Does America Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?,. POLITICO (Aug. 16, 2020, 7:00 AM), https://www.politico ...

Repairing the Truth: Race, Political Reconciliation, and America's ...

I will make this argument in four steps. First, I'll describe how White Evangelicals have tried to address America's racial issues using ...

Not the Time for Reconciliation | Commonweal Magazine

The church will have trouble acting as a source of reconciliation unless its members can engage in serious conversation about truth, justice ...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - usccb

The document Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love - A Pastoral Letter Against. Racism was developed by the Committee on Cultural ...