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Demonstrators in St. Paul, Minn., kneel for a moment of silence April 18, 2021, after learning of another police-involved shooting elsewhere in the U.S. The march was held the weekend before closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial and as protests continued demanding justice for Daunte Wright. (CNS photo/Nick Pfosi, Reuters)

Archbishop offers special Mass to pray for jurors, peace in communities

Joe Ruff|Apr 19, 2021|3 Min Read

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone speaks during an Easter Saturday prayer service for peace April 10, 2021, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco. Worshippers joined in prayer for unity and peace and an end to violence and racism against Asian Americans. (CNS photo/Dennis Callahan, Archdiocese of San Francisco)

San Francisco archbishop leads prayers for unity, end to 'virus' of racism

Catholic News Service|Apr 12, 2021|4 Min Read

People in Newcastle, Wash., wave signs during a March 17, 2021, rally against anti-Asian hate crimes. President Joe Biden March 30 announced plans to crack down on attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, including a review of how the Department of Justice can bolster its efforts to track and prosecute hate crimes. (CNS photo/Lindsey Wasson, Reuters)

Catholic groups, bishops pray for end to anti-Asian hate crimes, violence

Catholic News Service|Mar 31, 2021|6 Min Read

People in Tulsa, Okla., protest racial injustice June 20, 2020. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Historical racism in the US: When will we ‘get it’?

Bishop Marc V. Trudeau|Mar 30, 2021|7 Min Read

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LA Catholics to pray in solidarity with Asian communities after hate crimes

Angelus Staff|Mar 30, 2021|1 Min Read

Father Kolbe Chung, pastor at St. Andrew Kim Church in Duluth, Ga., and and Joseph Nam attend an interfaith prayer service at Gold Spa March 21, 2021, following the deadly shootings March 16 at three Asian day spas in metro Atlanta. (Michael Alexander/The Georgia Bulletin, via CNS)

Asian-American bishop says no shortcut to ending racism in U.S.

John Lavenburg|Mar 25, 2021|4 Min Read

A girl in Atlanta holds a flower March 21, 2021, during a vigil at a makeshift memorial outside the Gold Spa following the deadly shootings March 16 at three day spas in metro Atlanta. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Catholic leaders speak out against violence targeting Asian Americans

Carol Zimmermann|Mar 22, 2021|5 Min Read

A woman in Washington holds a placard near law enforcement officers June 6, 2020. Demonstrations continued after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, a Black man, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital. (Erin Scott/ Reuters, via CNS).

Bishops say engage issues of race, for sure, but don’t ‘browbeat’

John Lavenburg|Mar 22, 2021|4 Min Read

A building on Georgetown University's campus, renamed Isaac Hawkins Hall, right, is seen April 4, 2017. Previously known as Mulledy Hall and later Freedom Hall, it was renamed in 2017 for one of the 272 enslaved men, women and children sold by Georgetown's Jesuit community to plantation owners in Louisiana in 1838. Hawkins was the first enslaved person listed in the sale documents. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Jesuits pledge $100 million to benefit descendants of enslaved people

Carol Zimmermann|Mar 16, 2021|4 Min Read

Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis leads a prayer at the Hennepin County Government Center during a gathering of pastors and clergy March 7, 2021, ahead of jury selection in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is up on murder charges in the death of George Floyd while in police custody May 25, 2020. Chauvin is white and Floyd was Black. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)

Minnesota faith leaders pray for peace, justice during Floyd trial

Catholic News Service|Mar 12, 2021|3 Min Read

A sign on the door of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Landover Hills, Md., alerts the public there will be no Sunday Mass March 22, 2020. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Administrative Committee released a pastoral message March 9, 2021, marking one year since the coronavirus pandemic "changed life" and "ushered in suffering" in the United States. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)

USCCB Administrative Committee's pastoral message marks year of pandemic

Julie Asher|Mar 9, 2021|5 Min Read

Shannen Dee Williams, assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, addresses the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Atlanta Aug. 10. She spoke about racism and U.S. religious life. (CNS/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin via Crux)

Faith

Black religious orders broke racial barriers in the U.S.

John Lavenburg|Feb 11, 2021|4 Min Read

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