Racism

Prayer to St. Martin de Porres

Prayer
This video puts the lines of “Prayer to St. Martin de Porres” to music for an easy-to-use resource to start a parish meeting, youth group event, service trip, or religion class. To view the...
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Choosing the Path of Peace: Remembering All Those Who Lost Their Lives to Gun Violence

Prayer
We join in the mourning of the victims of the most recent mass shooting and recommit ourselves to the path of nonviolence and peace.  
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One Woman’s Courage to Break the Silence Surrounding Violence against Women

Creative Voice
This interview with Catherine Teresa Harris, One Woman’s Courage to Break the Silence Surrounding Violence against Women, provides moving first-person testimony from a brave woman who has been on a...
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Catholic Social Thought and Racial Solidarity

Reflection
Father Fred Kammer, S.J., continues his reflections on Catholic social teaching with this resource on CST and Racial Solidarity. Questions, suggestions for action, and a prayer are included.  
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Marshall

Film Discussion Guide
This film discussion guide helps viewers consider race relations when Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was beginning his legal career in 1940 and what has changed, or not changed, today; the...
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Step

Step provides what Pope Francis would call a moving encounter with the staff and students at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; their daily struggles, their determination, their hope,...
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Prayer After Charlottesville

Prayer
After the recent acts of racism in Charlottesville, Virginia, we pray that we may find ways to move forward towards the light, not back into the the shadows of hatred and violence.  
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Film Discussion Guide
The HBO film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is based on Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book of the same title about the life of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cancer cells revolutionized medical...
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Loving

Film Discussion Guide
Loving (2016) tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage led to the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia.
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13th

Film Discussion Guide
Ava DuVernay’s powerful documentary 13th argues that, although slavery was ostensibly abolished in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment legally embedded and allowed a pernicious form of enslavement in...
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3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets

Film Discussion Guide
This gripping documentary is based on the true story of Jordan Davis, a young black teenager who was shot at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. This film discussion guide includes a summary,...
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Deliver Us From Evil

Prayer
This prayer explores the various forms of racism and prays that we are delivered from such evil so we can heal as a society.