• Conversion,  Prayer Life,  Thoughts & Meditations

    People of Faith and Privilege Pray For an End to Racism

    Equity, diversity, bias, systemic racism, institutional oppression – Quite frankly, I don’t have the education, knowledge or experience to write intelligently about racism or any of these related concepts. Although they are all important concepts that, as Catholics, we have an obligation to learn about. However, I want to discuss one concept that does directly apply to my life and that of many of my readers – “white privilege.” This is a bit of a long post, so I hope you’ll stick with me. The term “white privilege” is actually a morally neutral idea. It is simply the concept that as white people we have certain social and economic advantages…