by Jeff Ryan Miraflor, SJ | Jul 17, 2020 | Catholic Writing, Film, Justice, Pop Culture, Race ~ Approx. 2 mins
If the Black Lives Matter movement didn’t already motivate you to educate yourself on systemic racism and how to be an anti-racist, this week’s Supreme Court decision allowing the first federal executions in 17 years to happen should. This week’s executions (Daniel...
by Eziokwubundu Amadi, SJ | Jul 16, 2020 | Current Events, Global Catholicism, Justice, Race ~ Approx. 4 mins
What is the value of human life? While there seems to be an agreement that such a question is worth asking, there is much debate on what ought to be its appropriate response. The incongruity in the responses to this age-old question has led to the heart-rending...
by Ken Homan, SJ | Jun 23, 2020 | In the News, Race ~ Approx. 4 mins
In my three years of teaching Catholic Social Teaching to high school juniors, white students frequently asked, “Why do you make everything about race?” It was a question I had asked at their age as well. In response, I attempted to offer some of the overwhelming...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Jun 10, 2020 | Blogs, Race, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Escaping reality is easy when you’ve got a phone in your hands. With a few simple taps, we have the capacity to be under the sea on Disney+, in the old west on HBOGO, or in a Russian emperor’s estate on Hulu. We can look up old flings on Facebook, and we can scan...
by Sullivan McCormick, SJ | Jun 9, 2020 | In the News, Justice, Race ~ Approx. 4 mins
How do we talk about race in the light of George Floyd’s murder and the surge of protests throughout the country? How do we talk about a legacy of racial violence that has recently manifested itself in the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery? How...
