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During this Black History Month, I want to present three more leaders of African descent who are on their way to sainthood. My source for this material can be located on the website for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (ww.usccb.org).

During February we celebrate Black History month in the United States. In honor of this month-long celebration, I thought that I would make use of a 2017 publication from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops who developed some resources for responding to the Sin of Racism. Specifically I want to talk about three U.S, Catholics who responded to Racism with Holiness. Here are three examples.

Recently I received a letter from Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia who was writing in his capacity as the Chair, Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth. He wrote to remind us that World Marriage Sunday is celebrated on February 10, 2019. We are also observing National Marriage Week USA from February 7-14, 2019. Both of these are opportunities to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with promoting and defending marriage and the family. World Marriage Day (WMD) honors husband and wife as the foundation of the family, the basic unit of society. It salutes the beauty of their faithfulness, sacrifice, and joy in daily marriage life.

“For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greek, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.” This verse from last week’s Second Reading (1 Corinthians 12:12-30) has been on my mind owing to recent events on the news. I am thinking of a video of supposedly racist confrontation that happened in front of the Lincoln Memorial between a high school student and a Native American elder.