Hello, everyone! Dr. Tia Pratt and I are excited to announce that A Catholic Witness Against Racism: Insights for Ministry and Education is available for pre-order. This book offers a fantastic collection of chapters written by leading academics and practitioners, and provides key tools from our Catholic tradition for dismantling racism in a variety of contexts.

The authors include Alejandro Aguilera-Titus, DMin; Ansel Augustine, DMin; Maka Black Elk (Oglala Lakota); Maureen K. Day, PhD; Kim R. Harris, PhD; Linh Hoang, OFM, PhD; Brett C. Hoover, PhD; Daniel P. Horan, PhD; Efran Menny; Maureen O’Connell, PhD; Tia Noelle Pratt, PhD; and Bethany J. Welch, SSJ, PhD. The chapters span a variety of topics, from truth-telling and healing to standing in active solidarity with persons experiencing discrimination to rethinking your catechetical and classroom materials. It promises many insights for parish and diocesan leaders as well as school administrators, educators and heads of non-profits.

Our thanks to the esteemed scholars who offer these back cover blurbs:

“Racism is most pervasive, dangerous, and destructive when it becomes silently ingrained in the structures of a society and its institutions. Racism dehumanizes. This excellent collection of voices and perspectives is an invitation to communal and institutional self-assessment. Not a mere call to acknowledge that racism exists but a marching order to vigorously stand against it.”

Hosffman Ospino, PhD, Professor of Theology and Religious Education, Director of Hispanic Ministry Initiatives, Boston College, Clough School of Theology and Ministry

“The authors address a pertinent issue within the U.S. Catholic Church as it strives to embrace and engage the great diversity of the Catholic community. The book offers a rich mix of voices and experiences along with practical guidance on how to creatively engage racism.”

Thomas Gaunt, SJ, Executive Director, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Georgetown University