Our Catholic leaders are calling us to action on fighting racism. Please see below for action needed to reduce the number of people who are incarcerated and detained and at higher risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus. Recommended resources on racism in America include:
RECOMMENDED BOOKS TO READ:
America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by Fr. Bryan N. Massingale
ARTICLES
Statement on President Trump’s Visit to St. John Paul II Shrine by Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory https://adw.org/news/archbishop-wilton-gregory-issues-statement-on-planned-presidential-visit/
‘The ink has run dry on writing statements’ by Michael J. O’Loughlin who quotes Sr. Mumbi Kigutha and other Black Catholics in America Magazine https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/06/01/black-catholics-call-action-george-floyd
The Assumptions of White Privilege and What We Can Do About It by Fr. Bryan Massingale https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/assumptions-white-privilege-and-what-we-can-do-about-it?fbclid=IwAR2VdeRJtYzzih84Cm8F0QhOfYSIiSErLrp8mUP0MIGsF8NY5nsGZQb-X8Aed
‘I Can’t Breathe’ – The Words that Haunt Us by Joan Brown (Global Sisters Report) https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/i-cant-breathe-words-haunt-us
Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love – A Pastoral Letter Against Racism – US Conference of Catholic Bishops. http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/racism/upload/open-wide-our-hearts.pdf