A Prayer for Josephine
Christopher Heffron
February 8, 2024
St. Josephine Bakhita bore scars throughout her body from years of slavery, yet her courageous heart remained unblemished.
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Only One Master
Christopher Heffron
February 8, 2024
That total abandonment to God would be Josephine’s legacy—and it is one we can work toward as 21st-century Catholics.
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Church activists struggle against growing slavery-like labor in Brazil
OSV News
June 27, 2023
The number of people working in slavery-like conditions in Brazil is the highest in 11 years. With 1,443 identified cases from Jan. 1 to June 14, the first half of 2023 already has the highest number of such occurrences in ...
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Baltimore Archdiocese forms commission to investigate church connection to slavery
OSV News
May 12, 2023
In recent years, a growing awareness of injustice and calls for reform have led to a racial reckoning, with businesses, corporations, nonprofit organizations and institutions across the country reassessing their own complicity with racism in its various forms.
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Cry Freedom: Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
Christopher Heffron
September 24, 2022
American Experience on PBS offers documentaries on two American luminaries.
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DeSantis defends Florida’s curriculum on slavery; draws Black, Catholic criticism