Commentary: A Pew survey, noting the number of U.S. Black Catholics and that the majority worship in parishes that are not predominately Black, has hinted at the richness, depth and necessity of Black Catholic devotion.
Decolonizing Faith and Society: Embracing a blues hope means making a decision to stand with and for every black and brown person in America. It means crying out to God with people yearning for freedom and justice.
Decolonizing Faith and Society: There are numerous ways Catholics who believe they are white can take time and space to dwell in and learn from black Americans and Black History Month in February.
Faith Seeking Understanding: For M. Shawn Copeland, soon to retire from Boston College, being a professor of theology is not merely a career, but a profound vocation.
Commentary: We don't need to wait for women to be ordained — there have been laypeople in the College of Cardinals before. Let women have a place at the table now.
For the first time in the 46-year history of the Catholic Theological Society of America's highest award, an African American has been honored for "distinguished theological achievement" — black and womanist theologian M. Shawn Copeland.
An odd pair of different ages, races and denominations, they seem a match on moral issues. What might a meeting of Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton have looked like in 1968?
We say: The antecedents for cyberbullies' attacks were well-set in plodding church bureaucracies. But we can only approach civility when loyal questioners are engaged, not vilified.
