Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is being co-published at DT’s Blog Partner, “Raids Across the Color Line.” Before you go on, it may be helpful to read part 1 of the series, “Growing Up Racist and Misogynist […]
Category: Racism
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 1: Growing Up Racist and Misogynist and Catholic
Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is being co-published at DT’s Blog Partner, “Raids Across the Color Line.” Read more about “blog partners” here. One. There’s this joke that I’ve never been able to forget. I mean, literally, […]
What Would Dorothy Say About ISIS?
But could the mighty power of United States even entertain the suggestion that it practice pacifism? Not on your life! I reiterate the earlier question: What sort of sign can we discern from Dorothy Day’s […]
The Tragedy of Catholicism and Race on the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States is overwhelmingly composed of Roman Catholics. Of the nine justices, six affirm themselves as Roman Catholic, while the other three self-identify as Jewish. This is a very new phenomenon, in place only […]
Finding the Face of God in Auschwitz: International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2014
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked to note when the largest of the concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated in 1945. There is so much one could say, and so many others who could say […]
The Untold Story of Harriet Thompson in the Battle for Racial Equality in Catholicism #tbt
I’d like to bring a little history into our daily theological walk today, and to reflect on the nature of what it means to do theology every day. On the one hand, this phrase, daily […]
