“Racism is a life issue”

“Racism is a life issue”

Recalling the bishops’ most recent pastoral letter against racism, the U.S. bishops say “People of good conscience must never turn a blind eye when citizens are being deprived of their human dignity and even their lives. Indifference is not an option”. And they forcefully repeat, “As bishops, we unequivocally state that racism is a life issue”.

On the eve of the Solemnity of Pentecost, the bishops called on all Catholics to pray for “a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit”, and for “a supernatural desire to rid ourselves of the harm that bias and prejudice cause”. They also call for prayers “to the Holy Spirit for the Spirit of Truth to touch the hearts of all in the United States and to come down upon our criminal justice and law enforcement systems”.

Finally, the bishops call “on each and every Catholic, regardless of their ethnicity, to beg God to heal our deeply broken view of each other, as well as our deeply broken society”.

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