One year after the Charlottesville protests, the Catholic Church in the United States appears to be still struggling to reckon with America’s “original sin.” Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Charlottesville’
Ex-KKK member-turned-priest confesses, apologises, takes leave
Thursday, August 24th, 2017
A priest in the US has published a statement confessing his Ku Klux Klan past. He joined the KKK as an “impressionable young man” he says. In his Arlington Catholic Herald editorial William Aitcheson says images from last week’s deadly white supremacist and white nationalist rally in Charlottesville “brought back memories of a bleak period Read more
The clergy who stared down white supremacists in Charlottesville
Thursday, August 17th, 2017
Asked what it was like to march through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, evangelical author and FreedomRoad.us founder Lisa Sharon Harper was blunt. “It really felt like every step you take could be your last,” she said, later adding: “With each step, I just kept holding on to the call to love.” Read more