Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Challenge of Black Patriotism by Theodore R. Johnson: “Black patriotism does not hold that America is irredeemably racist — it asks if America is interested in redemption. It is forward-looking and informed by history, meshing optimism about the nation’s prospects with a realism about its… Read More Around the Web: Articles on Racial Justice and Reform

At the Washington Post, Christopher White writes: While some bishops have expressed reluctance to work with a Biden administration, Gregory has already signaled a different approach. Just days before receiving his cardinal red hat in Rome, Gregory said he intends to dialogue with the Catholic president, “working with him in those areas where we can… Read More What the Relationship between Joe Biden and Cardinal Wilton Gregory Might Look Like

Pope Francis writes: With some exceptions, governments have made great efforts to put the well-being of their people first, acting decisively to protect health and to save lives. The exceptions have been some governments that shrugged off the painful evidence of mounting deaths, with inevitable, grievous consequences. But most governments acted responsibly, imposing strict measures… Read More In NY Times, Pope Calls on World to Respond to Crises with Solidarity

via CNN: Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named China’s Uyghur minority among a list of the world’s persecuted peoples, breaking his silence on allegations of widespread human rights abuses in the country’s far-western Xinjiang region. “I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uyghurs, the Yazidi — what ISIS did… Read More Pope Francis Speaks Out for the First Time on China’s Persecution of the Uyghurs

via Zach Lowe: In an unprecedented meeting, a delegation of five NBA players and several officials from the National Basketball Players Association met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday morning for a private audience to discuss their work on social justice issues. An assistant to Pope Francis reached out to the players’ association… Read More Pope Francis Meets with NBA Players to Discuss Social Justice

Highlights from Pope Francis in chapter 6 of Fratelli Tutti: Approaching, speaking, listening, looking at, coming to know and understand one another, and to find common ground: all these things are summed up in the one word “dialogue”. If we want to encounter and help one another, we have to dialogue. (198) We need constantly… Read More Pope Francis on Universal Values and Dialogue

Millennial Catholic Ellen Koneck writes: “He’s at peace,” the chorus of well-meaning Christians wrote in notecards and whispered in the days and weeks after my brother died. But such sentiment – even if true – didn’t, doesn’t work when facing down the dark abyss of death. “He’s in heaven now,” they asserted, as if it… Read More In the Face of Tragedy, We Can Do Better Than Throw-Pillow Theology