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Pastoral Letters on Race and Racism

Brothers and Sisters to Us (1979)
Pastoral Letter on Racism from U.S. Catholic Bishops.
What We Have Seen and Heard (1984)
A Pastoral Letter on Evangelization from the Black Bishops of the United States.
Dwell In My Love: A Pastoral Letter on Racism (2001)
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago
In God’s Image: Pastoral Letter on Racism (2003)
Most Reverend Harry J. Flynn, Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
Created in God's Image: A Pastoral Letter on the Sin of Racism and a Call to Conversion (2003)
Dale J. Melczek, Bishop of Gary
We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight: The Church's Response to Racism in the Years Following "Brothers and Sisters to Us": A Research Report Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of "Brothers and Sisters to Us" (2004)
Open Wide our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love
Pastoral Letter against racism from the US Catholic Bishops.

Fr. Bryan Massingale

Bryan Massingale is CSB and SJU's 2018 MLK Jr. Day keynote speaker. He is a professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Orbis, 2010).

Massingale's articles in US Catholic
Links to over a dozen articles written by Fr. Bryan Massingale.

Additional Resources

Subcommittee on African American Affairs (SCAAA)
The official voice of the African American Catholic community in the United States, from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Compassion Matters
2016 Koch Chair lecture by M. Shawn Copeland