They said Black migrants have faced racism, not just through immigration policies that fail to protect them, but also at the hands of U.S. immigration authorities and officials who mistreat them.
Advocates call for help for Black migrants from Biden administration
Panel: 2022 ‘faithful agenda’ means not giving up after setbacks
People of faith looking to see their values reflected in their politics cannot give up in the face of legislative setbacks, said members of a Feb. 1 panel, “Faith, Politics and Policy in 2022: What Is a Faithful Agenda Now?”
CHA explains support for bill expanding health care access, affordability
Workshops throughout the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering addressed numerous social outreach efforts to people on the margins, addressing poverty, immigration, racism, prison ministry, worker rights, mental health and economic development.
Syriac Catholic bishops cite challenges Christians face in Middle East
Syriac Catholic bishops, meeting in Lebanon for the first time since 2019 because of the pandemic, called on governments in the Middle East to work “to stop wars and renounce the logic of sectarianism and racism.”
Readers should brace themselves for painful history of church racism
All of the essays are eye-opening, well researched and provide an education in Catholic history absent from college and other classrooms as recently as a decade ago.
USCCB program aims to engage diverse group of Catholic young adults
Called “Journeying Together,” the program focuses on bringing together young adults from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds to discuss their experiences in the U.S. Church and begin a strategy of how to make their voices heard as the church moves forward.
Pew: Catholic homilies mention election, racism less than Protestant ones
As news events made headlines across the United States for months last year — particularly the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic and racism in America — priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers.
Hundreds of bodies found at former Saskatchewan residential school
Chief Cadmus Delorme announced the discovery of up to 751 unmarked graves at the site of the Catholic residential school on its territory, the news coming almost a month after the discovery of 215 children’s bodies buried at another residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.