By Rufus Burnett, Jr., and Steven Battin “When you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to […]
Category: Symposium on Racism & White Supremacy
Sinful and Holy: The Human Nature of the Church
The Church, like every human organization, is susceptible to sin. Christ, who established the Church as a universal community of believers to proclaim the kingdom of God, recognized the godliness and the human frailties of […]
To Jesuits, Black Americans were Objects of Ministry, Not Agents Of their Own Faith
“The most dangerous weapon of white supremacy has always been its ability to erase the history of its violence and its victims.” – Dr. Shannen Dee Williams. It is not uncommon for us to hear […]
No Innocent Space: Confronting Racism Here
Too often, when we talk about racism in the United States, we frame it as a sin of the past or as personal ignorance or prejudice. In many educational settings, we see emerging emphasis on […]
Conflict Theory, ‘Cause We Need It
People in the U.S. are not very good at being in conflict. This is because, among other reasons, we are not taught about conflict. One of the consistent comments in the evaluations for my undergraduate […]
Confronting Whiteness as the Risen Body of Jesus
The U.S. Catholic Church, Joseph Flipper writes, “is shaped by, and continues to operate out of, a matrix of whiteness.” As a result, the church’s identity and mission are distorted by its normative whiteness—as well as […]
The Complicated History of American Jesuits and Racial Justice
Content Warning: This essay contains racist and racialized language used in its historical settings but quoted here. American Jesuits bear a long, complicated, painful, and often enraging history regarding racial justice. As a Jesuit brother, […]
White Supremacy and Roman Catholic Patriarchy
White supremacy and patriarchy have been built up for centuries, each using and advancing the other as its predicate. Like the proverbial threads woven in a sweater, white supremacy and patriarchy are intricately and intentionally […]
Racial Rhetoric in the Josephites, 1888-1903
The Josephites, more formally known as the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, are a Catholic order of priests founded in 1893 to serve African Americans. They have been in many ways a […]
No One Wants to Be Accused of Racism, Not Even the Racists.
In September of this year, US Attorney General William Barr compared the Coronavirus state authorized lockdowns across the nation to American slavery. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn took issue with Barr’s statement: “It is incredible […]
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