Apr 27, 2022 | Antiracism
“Jesus doesn’t condemn those who are weak and trying hard; but those who are strong and aren’t trying at all. For Jesus, sin is often a failure to bother to love.” – Fr. James Martin, SJ I think it is the Truth that I am...
Apr 27, 2022 | Antiracism
We are no longer [held by] distinctions deriving from the flesh – but are to bear within ourselves only the seal of God, by whom and for whom we were created. We are to be so formed and modeled by God that we are recognized as belonging to God’s one family. – St....
Apr 27, 2022 | Antiracism
I was a high school senior, riding a Baltimore County school bus full of my fellow (white) students, on our way to an athletic event. The conversation on the bus was about two well-known African American athletes, one known for his political and cultural stances, the...
Apr 27, 2022 | Antiracism
I grew up a white kid, in a white, urban, neighborhood, in a white parish, within a city that was 40% African American. In my eight years at St. Bernard school, there was one African American student. No African American families were parishioners, although large...
Apr 27, 2022 | Antiracism
“As we are transformed into the image of our God, we learn to love others as Jesus does. Such self-sacrificing love could really change our world.” – Illio Delio, Claire of Assisi, p. ix The chronic injustice and blind prejudice baked into everyday life for people of...
Apr 27, 2022 | Antiracism
I grew up in the 1970s south in a white family that certainly didn’t think of itself as racist (it was). It was an era of still-overt racism while a new, arguably more insidious form of covert racism also flourished. I thought little of race, to be perfectly honest,...
