Racism

a stone monument depicting Martin Luther King Jr.

We All Have a Choice

Patricia Breen McNeil January 20, 2025

Today is a reminder for all Americans to name and help dismantle the racist processes and procedures that still exist, while honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

An asylum-seeking migrant family from Haiti cross the Rio Bravo to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 22, 2022. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Ohio bishops demand respect for migrants’ ‘infinite dignity’ amid false claims, threats

OSV News September 23, 2024

Ohio's bishops are urging Catholics and all people of good will to "turn to God and ask for eyes to see the infinite dignity of every person" amid false claims surrounding Haitian immigrants in that state's town of Springfield, which have prompted ...

Fighting Racism

Patricia Breen McNeil May 21, 2024

St. Katharine Drexel was born into a wealthy Philadelphia family in 1858. She founded an order of nuns and helped found the first Black Catholic university—Xavier University in New Orleans.

man looking at a cross in the water with a skyline in the background

Called to the Cross

Herman Sutter April 27, 2024

If we claim to revere the cross, if we claim to love the one who died for our sins, then we must not turn away.

Ending Racism

Clifford Hennings, OFM August 27, 2023

Reflect “Let Us make man in our image, according to Our Likeness” (Gen 1:26). Sadly, we do not always see each other in this way. Racism is a reminder of our brokenness. Let us pray for the eyes to see ...

People in Raeford, N.C., pray after viewing the body of George Floyd June 6, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital.(CNS photo/Jonathan Drake, Reuters) See FLOYD-PROTESTS-HOMILIES-ROUNDUP June 8, 2020.

Defiantly Catholic

Deacon Art Miller August 25, 2023

Our Church is God’s Church, and we belong to God. Church is the place we go to nurture our faith. It is where we go to be community.

Walking the Underground Railroad

Paula D'Arcy June 19, 2023

My walk became a priority for me for several reasons. It was foremost an opportunity to honor men and women who had lived their lives with great immediacy.