May 4, 2018
by Office of Communications
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has appointed Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux to serve as Chair of the USCCB’s Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism.
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The first I heard about it was when I got a bulletin alert on my cell phone, and I’ve been following it ever since. My heart sank when I heard about it because it’s another indication that racism is alive and well in the United States and also in our own archdiocese.
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I vividly remember my first visit to the home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia. The splendid Monticello estate with its sordid slave-quarters underground. One could literally see at this great American house the divide, the original sin, that has bedeviled our nation from its inception to the present day.
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