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July 18, 2016

Healing racial divides starts with dialogue, black bishops say

Retired Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, is pictured in a 2010 photo. When he was growing up in segregated Baton Rouge, La. the threat of being pulled over by police and arrested for something that even "hinted of going beyond the status quo" was very real, the bishop said in an interview.

WASHINGTON – The threat of being pulled over by police and arrested for something that even "hinted of going beyond the status quo," was very real to retired Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, when he was growing up in segregated Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Published in International
July 16, 2016

Black Catholic Congress urges prayer for peace in U.S.

Family members comfort Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of Philando Castile, as his casket arrives July 14 for a funeral service at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minn. Church officials said the mother of 32-year-old man, who was not Catholic, requested the cathedral hold an ecumenical service for her son. Castile was shot and killed by a police officer July 6.

BALTIMORE – The National Black Catholic Congress July 13 issued a prayer and call to action following a week of violence across the United States that saw police in Louisiana and Minnesota shoot two suspects and a sniper in Dallas kill police officers.

Published in International