{"id":4565,"date":"2017-08-30T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:43:46","slug":"racial-justice-activists-want-catholic-leaders-to-act-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Racial justice activists want Catholic leaders to act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2762\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 30, 2017<\/p>\n<p>This week, the <em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em> published an article highlighting an ever-increasing call from long-time racial justice advocates for the Catholic Church to do more to address the evils of racism, as recently evidenced in the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, VA earlier this month.\u00a0 One of the voices mentioned is of our very own IPS Assistant Professor Dr. timone davis.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. davis says, \u201cI don&#8217;t think we as a church are out front enough on this issue, leading the charge\u2026I&#8217;ve read a couple things [Catholic leaders] have said. But at this point, we&#8217;ve had enough talk. When do we do what they&#8217;ve already written about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Dr. davis, for exemplifying IPS\u2019s vision to educate and form leaders in ministry who can adapt to the rapidly changing religious and social landscapes of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>To read more on what Dr. davis and other leading faith community leaders have to say on the current climate of racial injustice, go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/justice\/racial-justice-activists-want-catholic-leaders-act\">https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/justice\/racial-justice-activists-want-catholic-leaders-act<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/files\/2016\/12\/IMG_2141-2000.jpg\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@LoyolaIPS\">@loyolaips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 2017 This week, the National Catholic Reporter published an article highlighting an ever-increasing call from long-time racial justice advocates for the Catholic Church to do more to address the evils of racism, as recently evidenced in the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, VA earlier this month.\u00a0 One of the voices mentioned is of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=4565\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}