
Bishop Braxton Addresses How to Heal US Racial Divide
‘We can’t rewrite history. We must acknowledge it and never repeat it,’ he said at The Catholic University of America last week.
‘We can’t rewrite history. We must acknowledge it and never repeat it,’ he said at The Catholic University of America last week.
COMMENTARY: The selective use of the word ‘minorities’ can perpetuate negative stereotypes and is contradicted by what it means to be an American citizen.
COMMENTARY: The shepherd of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., says that, ‘in a time of the breakdown of a sense of togetherness among people, there is an acute need for a new authenticity.’
An ecumenical and interracial alliance of Birmingham’s Catholic bishop, mayor and Baptist dean of Samford’s divinity school provides a model for discussing and healing racial divisions in the U.S.
The bishop of Belleville, Ill., discusses the complex subject of the racial divide and the Church’s role in fostering racial harmony in the United States.
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