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Georgetown University, a Jesuit school in the District of Columbia, led a coalition of Catholic universities and colleges that filed an amicus brief to the Su...

“Education is a gift, an opportunity, and an important aspect of our democracy that is not always within the reach of all, especially racial and ethnic groups.”

A town hall meeting on the mortal sin of racism and its effect on society, sponsored by the Archbishop’s Commission on Racial Healing and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, will take place June 24 at the Mount St. Joseph Convent Auditorium in Philadelphia.

Archbishop Pérez issued the following pastoral letter Racial Healing: “We Are One Body” on the occasion of The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ — Corpus Christi.

(OSV News) -- Ahead of the U.S. bishops meeting in Orlando, Florida, June 14-16, Bishop Joseph N. Perry said that new investigations by church institutions into their involvement with slavery and Indian boarding schools are very healthy and aid a collective examination of conscience. Its never too late to delve into ones past. Examination of conscience is something were used to as Catholics, the bishop told OSV News May 30. Its never too late to look at ones self and to see what wer

Bishop Joseph N. Perry, who is African American, said that he experienced racism as a child growing up in 1950s Chicago

Bishop Perry, 75, was named chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism May 10.

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTube Denver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA). Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc...

Bishop Perry also chairs the USCCB Committee on African-American Catholics, on which he has served since 2004,

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTubeDenver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA).Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that ...