The Church and the Racial Divide: Reflections of an African American Catholic Bishop

“A courageous and deeply personal meditation on race and the Catholic Church in America.”— National Catholic Reporter

After the shooting death of Michael Brown by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson, Missouri, Bishop Braxton of the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois, issued his first major pastoral statement on the racial divide in America. This timely and though-provoking volume opens with that statement, and concludes five years later with the bishops reflection on the killing of Georg...