Description: Is it really true that people “didn’t know slavery was wrong back then”? Did the Church teach against slaveholding? In this presentation, Fr. Chris Kellerman, SJ, will explain the […]
Undoing Our Knots: Personalizing and Praying With Our Parish Racial History Examining the fabric of America's racial history, manifested in our own faith communities, reveals the coarse, uneven, and knotted weave that has entangled us in patterns of injustice and continues to tear us apart as a people. Maureen O'Connell pulls at the thread of […]
Description: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," prophesied Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This call to awareness notes the importance of advancing social justice writ large (macro-scale) and […]
Description: Examine how Black and Asian Americans are racially positioned in the U.S. by examining two incidents that went viral in the media: the Central Park incident involving Amy Cooper, a young white lady, calling the police and accusing Christian Cooper (no relation), a Black birdwatcher, of threatening her. The other series of incidents involved […]
Wednesday, December 6, 2-3:15 p.m. ET via Zoom Registration Matthew J. Cressler, Ph.D., will reflect on his webcomic series Bad Catholics, Good Trouble and how you can use it as a Catholic racial justice resource. The first BC/GT story, "An Exception to the Rule," is at true story about the Franciscan sister who was hit […]
