This is the Day
Jay Fadden and Kevin Nelson host today’s show featuring an interview with Bishop Fernand Cheri of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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This is the Day
Jay Fadden and Kevin Nelson host today’s show featuring an interview with Bishop Fernand Cheri of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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Arrangements for Dr. Beverly A. Carrol.
Dr. Carroll served many years as founding Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Black Catholics.
Viewing (Monday, November 22, 2021)
March Funeral Home-West
3:00PM – 5:00PM
4300 Wabash Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215
Wake & Funeral (Tuesday, November 23, 2021)
At St. Peter Claver
1546 N. Fremont Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217
Wake ~ 10:00AM
Funeral ~ 11:00AM
Burial at King Memorial Park
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Article by: Alessandra Harris
Jose H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, released his address to the Congress of Catholics and Public Life being held in Madrid, Spain. In the address he stated that an elite leadership class has risen around the globe, one that has little interest in religion and no real attachments to the nations in which they live or to local traditions. Archbishop Gomez described the social justice movements as “pseudo-religions, and replacements and rivals to traditional Christian beliefs.”
As a Black Catholic engaged in social and racial justice movements, I can’t help but see some irony in Archbishop Gomez’s statement. It is, in fact, my traditional Christian belief that spurs me to make connections between my faith and the Gospel call for justice. This conviction on the part of Black Catholics and other groups at the margin of the church has kept us in the Christian faith in spite of the church’s history of colonization, enslavement, abuse and racism. Catholic elites, including church leaders, wealthy donors and media conglomerates, may see no connection between social justice movements and the core convictions of our church; but are these movements straying from tradition, or are our leaders out of touch?
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Article by: Dan Stockman
Original publication date: August 12, 2021
The president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious began the group’s annual assembly with a sweeping indictment on the Catholic Church’s role in racism, which was followed by the triumvirate presidency and executive director offering “a profound apology” for women religious’ role in it and praying for forgiveness.
The first day of LCWR’s annual gathering, which runs from Aug. 11 to 13, began with quiet contemplation, reflection and prayer, especially for those lost over the last year. It ended with President Sr. Elise García chastising the church, its bishops, vowed religious and institutions for participating in the origin and perpetuation of “our nation’s perduring sin of racism.”
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Article by: Nicki Gorny
A slave’s midnight escape across the Mississippi River. A seminarian’s journey to Rome, in defiance of the racism in his own country. A ground-breaking priest’s ministry in Chicago.
Venerable Augustus Tolton’s life reads like the stuff of a drama.
And this week in Toledo, it will be: Saint Luke Productions presents Tolton: From Slave to Priest at the Ohio Theatre, 3112 Lagrange St., at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, and again at 10 a.m. Thursday.