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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released "Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call of Love", a pastoral letter against racism. Read the letter here.

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, St. Pope Paul VI wrote, “Racism is not the exclusive attribute of young nations, where sometimes it hides beneath the rivalries of clans and political parties, with heavy losses for justice and at the risk of civil war……It is still an obstacle to collaboration among disadvantaged nations and a cause of division and hatred within countries whenever individuals and families see the inviolable rights of the human person held in scorn, as they themselves are unjustly subjected to a regime of discrimination because of their race or their color.”  This was from his Encyclical Populorum progressio: Development and Peace.  This was written in 1967.

a pastoral reflection by Bishop Paul J. Bradley