Father Maurice Nutt, C.Ss.R. is a priest, author, spiritual director, and professor at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. There is no...
Racial Justice
Discover how Catholics promote racial justice through advocacy, education, and social justice initiatives rooted in Catholic teaching.
Esther, a lector in one of the parishes in South Bend, Indiana, was recently accosted by a white woman who told her to stop reading at Mass. Not directly...
In Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship) Pope Francis calls Christians “to recognize Christ himself in each of our abandoned or excluded...
Sixty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a young Black minister addressed what was the largest assembly of civil rights protesters in the nation’s history. He...
Rachel Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University. Around 1676, Ann Joice landed in the British colony of...
Sixty years ago, a young Baptist minister was imprisoned for leading a struggle for equal rights and the full recognition of the humanity of Black Americans...
In August 2019, the New York Times Magazine ran “The 1619 Project,” marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in the British colonies...
St. Augustine was an African man. For many years, I didn’t appreciate the magnitude of this because his African identity was usually muted in favor of...
Jawanza Eric Clark is an author and associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. White Christians’ approach to solving the ecological crisis...
My friend and I were eating at a restaurant in South Bend, Indiana when someone called the police on us. She accused us of scaring her 8-year-old daughter. The...
