Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
Racial Justice
“Black Lives Matter to God and to Us,” reads a large banner hanging over the entryway to the United Catholic Youth Ministries (UCYM) staff workspaces on the...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Why do people in the United States struggle with the idea of calling something racist? Sister Emily, Sister Eilis, Joan...
“I remember when . . .” When I was a child, my grandmother began each story with these words. Her stories about the past taught me lessons for my own life...
On his apostolic visit to the United States in September 2015, Pope Francis amplified the work of four Americans who struggled with the status quo of their...
So many of us are taught that polite dinner conversation avoids topics such as religion and politics. These two hot-button issues, we are told, have nothing to...
The photograph, depicting robed and hooded KKK members gathered in a church, in front of a banner reading JESUS SAVES, is spiritually grotesque. And morally...
My friend in Buffalo wrote me on the day an 18-year-old murdered 10 people at a small supermarket there. She was heartsick and shaken at the violence but also...
Historian Shannen Dee Williams had never seen a Black nun until she stumbled across a 1968 news story about the founding of the National Black Sisters’...
Marcia Lane-McGee Confronting racism in the Catholic Church and recognizing our diversity should be joyful work, say Marcia Lane-McGee and Shannon Wimp Schmidt...
