Commentary: Archbishop Gomez's speech criticizing social movements raises the question: Is Catholicism fit to respond to racism in the U.S.? Can we meet theologian Howard Thurman's demand for a credible Christianity?
The rush by certain conservative media to claim the pope was seconding their views on cancel culture is laughable, not least because conservatives have a long track record of cancelling things to which they object.
Sir Sidney Poitier changed the film world on the way to changing the larger world. Before Poitier's movies, "Black characters were jolly statuary — hoisting luggage, serving food, tending children — meant to decorate a white American's dream."
Book review: Meatpacking America provides an intimate look at how workers — many of them refugees — navigate complex intersections of work and survival, migration and belonging, and race and religion in dangerous jobs.
