Father Bryan Massingale, author of “Racial Justice and the Catholic Church” and Professor of Theology at Fordham University, joins America's National Correspondent Michael O'Loughlin for a conversation on racism, white privilege and what the church can do to address these issues.
The document Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love - A Pastoral Letter Against Racism was developed by the Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It was approved by the full body of bishops as a formal statement of the same at its November 2018 General Meeting and has been authorized for publication by the undersigned.
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CHARGED WITH SAINT CHARLES, By Fr. Don Farnan
When Lightning Strikes
06/30/20 9:13 pm
A lightning bolt hit our school during a storm last weekend. Such an energy current can cause lots of damage and jolt us from normal patterns of living. Ironically, our school’s nickname is The Chargers and our mascot is a bolt of lightning held high by The Flash. In the line of Saint Paul on […]
Read MoreDisciples of Abundance
06/26/20 6:06 pm
According to famous accounts of the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, Jesus instructed him to rebuild His church. While taking hammer and nails to wood, the young future saint heard the command again and realized that Christ meant something altogether different. The church, over time, had dilapidated spiritually, and Francis was Our Lord’s chosen […]
Read MoreWhy I Go To Extremes
06/18/20 6:28 am
Thirty years ago, Billy Joel sang: “Call me a joker, call me a fool, but right at this moment it’s totally cool…Sometimes I feel like I’m going too fast but don’t know how long this feeling might last…Darling, I don’t know why I go to extremes.” Most of us probably go to extremes at some […]
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