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Daryl Grigsby, the well-known African American commentator, author and convert to Catholicism 25 years ago, hosted a March 7 webinar on the thorny subject of racism, apparent indifference to it and what can be done about it in the Catholic Church.

Bishop Neary shares the purpose of World Mission Sunday, and how it unites us all as missionaries to help build the Body of Christ through a shared mission of hope, goodness and compassion.

We Americans have made noteworthy progress in the areas of social justice. People of Color have since attained positions of authority unimagined in 1963. Still too many Americans, however, await the realization of the dream referenced in Dr. King’s speech.

The protest occurred after the outcome of the bishops’ votes on “Witnessing to the Equal Dignity of Women and Men.”

The Supreme Court appears set to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion for nearly 50 years, according to a leaked initial draft of a court opinion obtained by Politico and published online the evening of May 2.

“I wonder if the Church can play a mediating role in the midst of our division. It can provide a meeting ground where Catholics and others who identify with either party can meet the other.”

“This is not some sentimental, feel-good book on how we need to be kind to each other. It’s more like a Sermon on the Mount for our time, or at least how we might work towards living the Sermon on the Mount.”

While the liberal permission to use the older Mass was put in place to promote unity, it now has sown division by undermining the reforms of the Second Vatican Council through the rejection of the most important of them: the reform of the Roman Rite.