"...we need to take up the hard work of healing the deep wound that has afflicted our people since the first slave ships docked on this continent. And we need to start today." -Chicago's Cardinal Blase Cupich 
"Racism is a mortal sin." -Philadelphia's Archbishop Nelson Perez
"...the African American community lives with the experience and memories of these deaths in an entirely different way. It is a daily reality—one they must speak to their children about and live themselves with some fear." -Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley
"Our nation must have a firm purpose of amendment so that this centuries-old pandemic of racism is eradicated."
-The National Black Catholic Congress
-The National Black Catholic Congress
"As Christians, as Catholics, as people of faith, we must do more than just pray; we must model Jesus’ message to love one’s neighbor. Our neighbor cannot breathe! Our neighbor is being lynched! Our neighbor is dying!" -National Black Sisters' Conference facebook.com/permalink.php?…
"These statements should not have to be made. These
demands should not have to be made. These lives should not be lost." -The Knights of Peter Claver
demands should not have to be made. These lives should not be lost." -The Knights of Peter Claver
"Racism has been tolerated for far too long in our way of life." -Archbishop Jose Gomez of L.A. and president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
"...when whiteness resurged to wipe away the gains of Emancipation and Reconstruction, the nation reasserted the privilege of whiteness, a privilege to instill fear and to act with impunity on blacks." -Dr. Reynold Verret, president of Xavier Univ. in New Orleans
“If you are not working for healthcare and just wages and housing and education and freedom of movement as universal human rights, you are enabling oppression.” -Hope Border Institute mailchi.mp/hopeborder.org…
"As a predominantly white community within the United States, we acknowledge our part in the sin of racism. We recommit ourselves to self-examination, to prayer, and to advocacy for the elimination of racism in all its forms."
-Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
-Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
"Covid-19, the murder of George Floyd, the needless deaths of so many people of color, the shameless exploitation of social division for personal gratification or political gain – THESE ARE APOCALYPTIC EVENTS..." -Cardinal Joe Tobin on Newark rcan.org/cardinal-josep…
Police killings of black men "expose a deep-seated connection between institutional racism and the continued erosion of the sanctity of life; also, the connection between acceptance and justification for taking the life of unarmed Black men." -Assoc. of Black Catholic Deacons
