Whiteness and the Catholic Church in the US

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Where Do We Go From Here? An Equity, Racial Justice, and Reconciliation Series

Walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice.

This event is a part of a webinar series discussing the legacies of anti-Black racism and movements towards reconciliation.


In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Catholic communities are grappling with their own historical and current complicity in tolerating racist systems and perpetuating white privilege and power structures. This panel will explore the theological and pastoral responses available to Catholics in addressing and responding to the social sin of systemic anti-Black racism and white supremacy in the church and society.

Panelists: Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich, co-editors of Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence (Orbis, 2007).

Laurie Cassidy, Ph.D., is a Catholic theologian and co-author with Maurieen O’Connell of She Who Imagines: Feminist Theological Aesthetics. Alex Mikulich is a research fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute, New Orleans, and contributing writer to America magazine, National Catholic Reporter and HuffingtonPost.

Welcome Remarks by Kevin Burke, S.J., USF Trustee and VP for Mission Integration, Regis University
Moderated by Julie Dowd, director of University Ministry

Free and open to the public.

This virtual webinar series aims to address the most pressing and relevant race issues of our time that impact and threaten racial justice today. Through community dialogue and a Jesuit Catholic, San Francisco, and Bay Area lens, we engage critical issues to understand how we can reconcile ourselves from the legacy and harm of racism in Jesuit higher education. The series is an invitation to the extended USF community to engage in and commit to anti-Black racist work, thought, and action.

Sponsored by: the USF Jesuit Community, Trustee Emeritus Eva Monroe, Division of Student Life, Institute for Nonviolence and Social JusticeUniversity MinistryJoan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition, the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, and Fromm Institute for Lifelong LearningMcGrath Institute for Jesuit Catholic Education, and the Office of Diversity Engagement and Community Outreach.

 Questions? Contact the Office of Diversity Engagement and Community Outreach at diversity@usfca.edu.

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