Amid the national tumult over racial injustice, there are high-level calls for the schools to teach more about the church’s past links to slavery and segregation, and how Black Catholics persevered nonetheless.

It was kind of funny at first, but one Karen is growing weary of her baptismal name becoming a shorthand reference to an entitled white woman.

Death by lynching and death by crucifixion are atrocities of the worst order. But such killings say different things about the societies in which they are committed.

We know from history that engaging in violence only causes more problems. So why do police and protesters still do it? René Girard had an answer: imitative behavior.

72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.

I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”