Racial Challenges and Leadership

Prayers

A Prayer for Challenging Racism

God,

You are the source of human dignity,

and it is in your image that we are created.

Pour out on us the spirit of love and compassion.

Enable us to reverence each person,

to reach out to anyone in need,

to value and appreciate those who differ from us,

to share the resources of our nation,

to receive the gifts offered to us

by people from other cultures.

Grant that we may always promote

the justice and acceptance

that ensures lasting peace and racial harmony.

help us to remember that we are one world and one family.

Amen.

by Australian Catholic Social Justice Council.

Leaders

• Father Robert Kalima

• Dr. C. Vanessa White

Book Reviews/Commentaries

• Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human by Arthur Riley Reviewed by Kathryn Post Religion News Service

• Subversive Habits by Shannen Dee Williams Commentary by Jacqueline Willy Romero Cushwa Center

• Institutional Racism and the Catholic Church by Dolores Foster Williams Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D.Profiles in Catholicism

• Institutional Racism and the Catholic Church by Dolores Foster Williams Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones Commentary by Madeleine Davison National Catholic Reporter

Film Reviews/Commentaries

• The Untold Story of Emmett Till Reviewed by Brian Costello Common Sense Media

• Till Reviewed by Ellen Wexler Smithsonian Magazine

• All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory Reviewed by Carl E. Olson The Catholic World Report

Television Review/Commentaries

• Purple Hearts Reviewed by Tania Bhattacharya Al Jazeera

Cardinal Letters

• Cardinal Seán O'Malley, OFM, Cap. Letter on Racism

Medical Journal Articles

• Hepatitis C in Black Individuals in the USA Review by Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia, MBBS, MPH. Sharon M. Kelly, PhD, Sasraku Amanor-Boadu, MD, MPH; et al JAMA November 9, 2o23

• Study Helps Explain Racial Disparities in Biological Aging by Emily Harris JAMA July 19, 2023

• The Supreme Court’s Rulings on Race Neutrality Threaten Progress in Medicine and Health by Harald Schmidt, PhD, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, and Michelle A. Williams, ScD JAMA July 10, 2023

• Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Among the Black Population in the US, 1999-2020 by César Caraballo, MD, Daisy S. Massey, BA, Chima D. Ndumele, PhD, et al. JAMA May 16, 2023

• The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Inequities in the US by Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, and Patrick Richard, PhD, MA; et al. JAMA May 16, 2023

Articles and Commentaries

• Racism and abuse have devastated U.S. Catholicism. Is there a way forward? by Alessandra Harris Black Catholic Messenger

• New Orleans Archdiocese to Sell Historic Black Catholic School to Fund Abuse Settlements by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman Black Enterprise

• Women are advancing in the workplace, but women of color still lag behind by Adia Harvey Wingfield Brookings

• Netanyahu putting politics before Gaza deal, dead hostage's daughter says by David Gritten BBC

• FACT SHEET: President Biden Designates Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument by The White House

• West Sumatra Bishop: Climate change provoked natural calamity by Deborah Castellano Lubov Vatican News

• American Cancer Society Launches Largest-ever Study to Probe Disparities in Cancer Outcomes for Black Women by The Skanner

• Dismantling Environmental Racism by Sr. Damien Marie Savino, F.S.E., Ph.D. Franciscan Action Network

• Hispanic and Latino professionals feel overlooked and underrepresented in corporate America, new study finds by Jeanne Sahadi

• 6 former Mississippi law officers sentenced in state court for torture of 2 Black men by Michael Goldberg The Associated Press

• How the Church can evangelize by example on racial justice by John L. Allen Jr. Crux Now/Angelus

• French bishops oppose ‘end of life’ bill in latest row with government by Elise Ann Allen Crux

• On the Sexual Harassment of Seminarians in the Diocese of Buffalo by Mary Pezzulo Patheos 

• With millions of Syrians displaced in country, it's urgent to facilitate their return home' by Thaddeus Jones Vatican News 

• MetaSaint: Catholic priest launches outreach on Roblox gaming platform by Joseph Tulloch Vatican News 

• Holy See: 'Fight against racism begins from education' by Lisa Zengarini Vatican News

• SOON and VERY SOON: African Americans Leave the Catholic Church by Tierra Stone WEAA - 88.9FM 

• I’m the collateral damage of Mormon racism and homophobia by Carlene Fraser  Religion News Service

• Spokane bishop responds to Catholic Charities racism video by Catholic News Agency /The Catholic World Report

• For MLK day, top US prelate urges confronting ‘evil of racism and prejudice’ by John Lavenburg Crux

• Patients of Color More Often Brace for Unfair Treatment in Health Care, Survey Finds by Devi Shastri The Associated Press/The Skanner

• In the US, Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis by Tiffany Stanley and Lea Sken The Associated Press

• Black Catholic History Month: Ancestral Mass honors the past by Natalie Romano Angelus

• As Black church grapples with mental health, clergy are both subject and solution by Ambar Castillo Religion News Service

• White Patients Are More Likely Than Black Patients to Be Given Opioid Medication for Pain in US Emergency Departments by Trevor Thompson and Sofia Stath The Scanner

• Judge says Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts are discriminatory and must be redrawn by The Associated Press

• Racial power dynamics drive abuse, says US priest by Sarah MacDonald The Tablet

• Black Student Suspended Over His Hairstyle to Be Sent to an Alternative Education Program by Cheyanne Mumphry The Skanner

• National Association of Evangelicals launches test to assess, foster racial justice by Religion News Service

• Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s attempt to avoid creating a second Black majority congressional district by Ariane de Vogue and Fredreka Schouten CNN

• A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials by Juan A. Lozano The Associated Press

• Ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid by Michael Goldberg The Associated Press

• Congressional Black Caucus Confronts Ongoing Assault on Black Rights by Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire/The Skanner

• Deacon remembers grief for lynched civil rights icon as ‘Godly moment’ by John Lavenburg Crux

• Man who killed 23 people in Texas Walmart shooting targeting Latinos sentenced to 90 life terms by federal judge by Rosa Flores, Andi Babineau, Ashley Killough and Elizabeth Wolfe CNN

• Catholicism and the revisited history of the Ku Klux Klan by Seth Smith Our Sunday Visitor

• Juneteenth celebration horror: 23 shot, 1 fatally, at Illinois event by Bill Hutchinson and Victoria Arancio ABC News

• Juneteenth celebrates Black joy and Christian hope by Shannon Wimp Schmidt U.S. Catholic

• Tucker Carlson’s racist text message—and the painful confession it contains by Joe Hoover, S.J. America

• Ron DeSantis Bill Against Chinese Citizens in Florida Sparks Outrage by James Dickerton Newsweek

• Vinícius Jr. is being racially abused during LaLiga matches. Why is nobody being punished by Matias Cruz CNN

• The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys by Katie Nodjimbadem Smithsonian Magazine

• WCC shares Week of Prayer for overcoming racism, xenophobia by Independent Catholic News

• Vinícius Jr. is being racially abused during LaLiga matches. Why is nobody being punished by Matias Cruz CNN

• Older Black Men Have Higher Mortality After Elective Surgery by Emily Harris JAMA March 8, 2023

• Black Vietnam Vet Finally Awarded Medal of Honor for Bravery by The Associated Press/Patricia The Skanner

• Servant of God Mother Mary Lange and the Rich History of Black Catholic Religious Orders by Jim Graves National Catholic Reporter

• Race-Based Equations Delayed Black Patients From Getting Onto Kidney Transplant Lists—An Unprecedented New Policy Seeks to Undo the Damage by Jennifer Abbasi JAMA February 27, 2023

• How Have American Christian Churches Responded to Anti-Asian Racism? by Melissa Borja Patheos

• Why Black Newborns Are 3 Times More Likely to Die in the Care of White Doctors by Rob Picheta CNN

• The private angst over Donald Trump’s racist attacks on Elaine Chao goes public by Politico/Yahoo

• A 6th Memphis officer is off the force as new details emerge from the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols by Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Nick Valencia CNN

• The private angst over Donald Trump’s racist attacks on Elaine Chao goes public by Politico/Yahoo News

• Deorge Santos – live: Congressman accused of making vile joke about Hitler, Jews and Black people on Facebook by John Bowden and Maroosha Muzaffar Independent.UK

• Watch: Donald Trump Jr. explodes at Time Magazine over article chronicling the fitness industry's racist past by Brandon Gage AlterNet

• 3 men in South Africa charged for racist attack at swim pool by ABC News

• Man arrested for racist and homophobic Christmas Eve attack on Asian-American fast food customers by Daniel Villarreal The New Civil Rights Movement/AlterNet

• For Black Families in Phoenix, Child Welfare Investigations Are a Constant Threat by Eli Hager, Agnel Philip, and Hannah Rappleye ProPublica

• Buckingham Palace official quits after asking Black charity CEO where she was ‘really from’ by Max Foster, Joshua Berlinger, Chris Liakos and Carolyn Sung CNN

• Killer streets, revolting racism by CathNews New Zealand

• Dismantling Environmental Racism by Sr. Damien Marie Savino, F.S.E., Ph.D. Franciscan Action Network

• 'Blackface expert' Megyn Kelly buried by MSNBC host after racism accusation by Tom Boggioni Raw Story/AlterNet

• The Loneliest Hatred, Why anti-Semitism and conspiratorial theories claiming that ‘Black people are the “real Jews”’ thrive in a time of racial reckoning by John Paul Pagano The Tablet

• Stephen Miller Mails “Race-Baiting Misinformation” to Asian American Voters by Robert Mackey The Intercept

• New Hampshire Catholic school grapples with racist incident by John Lavenburg Crux

• A Racial Divide in Breast Cancer Deaths by Steven Ross Johnson U.S. News

• Sen. Tuberville faces backlash for comments on Democrats, crime and reparations by Melissa Quinn CBS News/Yahoo News

• LA priests reflect on racism during task force presentation by Pablo Kay Angelus News

• State Investigation Reveals Racial Disparities in Student Discipline and Police Involvement by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica and Jennifer Smith Richards Chicago Tribune

• All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory by Edward Feser Reviewed by Carl E. Olson The Catholic World Report

• OpEd: Democrats Fight Hard Against Anti-Asian Racism by AsAmNews

• Apology to People of Color for APA’s Role in Promoting, Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Hierarchy in U.S. by The American Psychological Association

• HHRC Stands in Solidarity With Asian American Community by HHRCMain

• The fight against racism must continue by Zara Abrams American Psychological Association

• What 2021 taught us about the fight for racial justice by Brandon Tensley CNN

• Apology to People of Color for APA’s Role in Promoting, Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Hierarchy in U.S. by The American Psychological Association

• Racial Discrimination in the United States by Human Rights Watch

• On-campus drag show blasted for mocking Catholic faith; university will investigate by Shannon Mullen, Joe Bukuras Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• We need to talk about racism in the Catholic Church, by Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J. Catholic Voices

• Breonna Taylor, police brutality, and the importance of #SayHerHame by Melissa Brown and Rashawn Ray Brookings

• Louisville Archbishop Kurtz Pleads for Justice and Peace After Breonna Taylor Decision by Catholic News Agency/National Catholic Register

• LIVE UPDATES: Hundreds flock to downtown Louisville to continue Breonna Taylor protests by Bailey Loosemore and Hayes Gardner Louisville Courier

• Black Catholics: Words not enough as church decries racism by Davus Crary Associated Press

• Black church leaders demand apology for Trump ad by Jack Jenkins Religion News Service

• How To Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month During The Covid-19 Pandemic/With a global pandemic, ongoing racial tensions and the presidential election, Hispanic Heritage Month is looking a little different in 2020. by J.D. Long-García America

• JCCA’s Commitment to Equity and Anti-Racism by JCCA

• Black and Jewish Community Join to Revive Historic Partnership by Saundra Sorenson The Skanner

• LaCrosse, Wisconsin Catholic Priest Belittles Lynching in Racist Homily. by Rebecca Hamilton Patheos

• Catholic football team from Boston subjected to ‘racist language’ during game on Cape Cod by Boston 25

• Black Jesus version of Michelangelo's Pietà divides Catholics on race and politics by Claire Giangravé Religion News Service Link to Spirituality and Art

• God is beyond race and gender. It’s time our sacred art is too. Predominantly white sacred images can inspire prejudice, says Father Bryan Massingale by Father Bruan Massingale U.S. Catholic

• Free Black Thought by Brittaby Talissa King Tablet

• Black Lives Matter co-founder denounces Pat Robertson for saying the movement is 'anti-God' by Alejandra Molina Religion News Service

• How the CDC and others are failing Black women during childbirth by Leslie Farrington Stat Link to Pregnancy and Pregnancy Challenges

• White Churches & White Supremacy by The Editors Commonweal Link to White Supremacy

• Eco-Fascism Exists Across the Political Spectrum and Must Be Stopped by Emily Claire Schmitt Patheos Link to Fascism

• Trump's 1776 commission is proof America is spiraling toward fascism by Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian

• The Lamonby Case. Campus Week: The troubling dismissal of a teacher at Solent University in the U.K. reflects the dangers of lack of due process in accusations of racism by Tablet

• The Tablet Ten. Jews running for Congress this fall who are worth keeping an eye on, whether or not you’re Jewish by Armin Rosen Tablet

• James Baldwin, blindness and Hagia Sophia by Stephen G. Adubato National Catholic Register

• Scholar strike’ for racial injustice includes divinity school professor by Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

• David Hume: Canceled by Michael Pakaluk The Catholic Thing

• Racism in Black maternal health Black mothers share their experience. by Rockland/Westchester Journal News/NewJersey.com

• Trump campaign ad shows Biden kneeling in Black church to argue Americans ‘won’t be safe’ by Jack Jenkins Religion News Service

• Christian Cooper Wrote a Comic Book About Racist Central Park Incident by Serena Sonoma them

• Chris Webber Talks About His Viral Speech on Racial Justice and Calling the Western Conference Finals. The NBA great also discussed Breonna Taylor and his collection of historical Black artifacts. by Michael Pina GQ

• La Crosse Bishop to Correct Racist Priest Who said ‘Catholics Can’t Be Democrats’ by Rebecca Hamilton Patheos

• A Noose, Lynching Jokes and Endless Racial Slurs: Black Elevator Mechanics File Lawsuit Against Mitsubishi Electric by The Skanner News

• 200 Catholic leaders ask AG Barr to reject award by Independent Catholic News

• Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Feminist Icon and Champion of Liberal Causes. A fearless fighter for women’s rights, her Judaism was an important part of Ginsburg’s identity throughout her life by Amir Tibon Haaretz Link to Ruth Bader Ginsberg

• Catholics respond after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87 by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• President Trump booed at Supreme Court as he pays respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg by BBC News

• 'Person of great righteousness’: Jewish community notes the significance of Justice Ginsburg’s death on eve of Rosh Hashanah by Tulsi Kamath Click2Houston

• Human Embryo Gene Editing Gets a Road Map—Not by Wired Link to Bioethics

• WFP appeals for support to avert starvation. Addressing the UN Security Council this week, World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley, warned that 270 million people are on the brink of starvation because of the coronavirus-induced hunger pandemic. by Robin Gomes Vatican News

• The Day After: Navigating a Post-Pandemic World by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Together Strong: Life Unites’ is theme of March for Life set for Jan. 29 by Kurt Jensen Crux Link to Abortion

• Novice's death in India puts spotlight on tragedies over three decades by Saji Thomas Global Sisters Report Link to Murdered Nuns

• Undercover Journalist David Daleiden Fights Planned Parenthood Lies with Federal Defamation Lawsuit by Thomas Moore Society Link to Abortion

• Even RBG thought Roe v. Wade went too far. We should learn from her incremental approach by Thomas J. Reese America

• Alabama abortion doctor denied license over claims of application fraud by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• Why Abortion Is Different From Other Issues by Michael Warsaw National Catholic Register

• Global biotech company ends use of aborted fetal cell lines for vaccines. A case in point is the decision by Sanofi Pasteur to no longer use an aborted fetal cell line in producing its polio vaccines by Julie Asher Catholic News Service/UCANews

• Diocese of Amarillo: Disregard and Pray for Pavone by Mary Pezzulo Patheos

• Together Strong: Life Unites’ is theme of March for Life set for Jan. 29 by Kurt Jensen Crux

• Jared Kushner Not Sure Why You Chickenshits Are So “Hysterical” About a Virus That’s Killed 195,000 Americans by Vanity Fair Add to Immoral Political Practices

• After Trying To Protect Water Sources, These Hondurans Have Been Held Without Bail For More Than A Year. Over the past two years, 31 people from the municipality of Tocoa, on the lush north shore of Honduras, have faced criminal prosecution as a result of their opposition to an iron ore mining project in the Botaderos Mount “Carlos Escaleras” National Park. by Jackie McVicar America Link to Catholic Activism

• Vatican, tech heads see COVID as opportunity for ‘ethical’ AI solutions by Elise Ann Allen Crux Link to Artificial Intelligence

• 11 years in prison: A Catholic priest serves time for crimes of conscience, The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. by Patrick O'Neill Religion News Service

• Vatican's Cardinal Becciu renounces the cardinalate in shocking move by Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter Link to Financial Crimes

• Analysis: The Becciu resignation, a beginning not an end by Ed Condon CNA/The Catholic World Report

• Tolkien Against Racism by Henry Karlson Patheos

• For a Church That is Unafraid to Welcome Black People by Christopher Smith, SJ The Jesuit Post

• Catholic 101: Church Teaching and the Anti-Racism Movement by Chris Kellerman, SJ The Jesuit Post

• Black History Month: Confronting the Mixed History of the Jesuits by Ken Homan, SJ The Jesuit Post

Videos

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The Race Gap: How U.S. systemic racism plays out in Black lives

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