Racism

(OSV News) — The U.S. Catholic bishops have deepened their commitment to combating racism, by making permanent a subcommittee dedicated to working for racial justice and reconciliation in society. The U.S. …

Black Catholics throughout U.S. history contributed to the country’s unity and freedom.

Five years after the murder of George Floyd, there is much work still to be done in the church to address the sin of racism, say U.S. Catholic leaders.

(OSV News) — The Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves, has written an open letter to former President Donald Trump, demanding the Republican presidential …

(OSV News) — A historically Black Catholic fraternal organization is growing — and its members are drawing strength from the Eucharist to live out the Gospel message, said its top …

(OSV News) — It was June 1963, and President John F. Kennedy had just months to live before an assassin’s bullet would shatter his skull in the streets of Dallas …

(OSV News) — The annual New York Encounter, held Feb. 16-18 and organized by the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, had as this year’s theme, “Tearing Open the Sleeping …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Sixty years ago when she was a student at George Washington University, Diane Patterson met her future husband, Gerry Tolson, in economics class. After the first …

(OSV News) — The leaders of the Conference of Religious Leaders in France, representing Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Buddhist communities, issued a June 30 joint statement appealing for …