The racial gap that many believed was narrowing has abruptly widened in America. Martin Luther King Jr. once asked, "Where do we go from here?" Pope Francis' call to become a synodal church could answer that question.
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?
Music review: The first posthumous album by Prince made up entirely of unreleased material, "Welcome 2 America," recorded in 2010, delivers some of his catchiest music in decades, while exploring big questions.
Catholic bishops' conferences in Georgia, Florida and Texas have chosen not to take positions on "election integrity" bills that their states' GOP-controlled legislatures have passed to impose new voting restrictions.
Book review: In Surviving the White Gaze, Rebecca Carroll recalls life growing up adopted into a white family. How do you navigate life when the images of Blackness you have are so few, or embittered, confused or nonexistent?
Simply Spirit: Racism and white supremacy are killing our Black and brown sisters and brothers. We white people — especially white Catholics — are being called to do something about it. But what must we do?
Are police and prisons really necessary? For some abolition activists, the desire to abolish police and prisons comes from their Christian faith and a belief that no one is disposable.
Justice Reimagined: If, as prison abolitionists believe, the system is working as planned to prop up racism and oppression, then it can't just be reformed — it needs to be abolished and replaced with something else.
Hundreds of thousands of people every year are swallowed up by the U.S. system of mass incarceration, which many fighting for Black liberation and against white supremacy view as both a symptom and a driver of racism.
