As you are aware, the Racial Equality and Justice Group is taking a summer hiatus during the month of July.  We will not be meeting in July.  Plans are in place to meet in person at St. Tom's on August 3.  More information will be forthcoming later this month about that meeting.

Please remember that we have some summer reading to do.  The books that were chosen to read are The Church and the Racial Divide:  Reflections of an African American Catholic Bishop by Bishop Edward K. Braxton and White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson.  Both of these books will be discussed in our future meetings.

Here are some resources Teresa Cecil found that may be of some interest to you.  Thank you, Teresa!

Commonweal Magazine now has YouTube recordings of 3 sessions on "Spirituality in a Time of Reckoning". The first episode was on 'grief", the second was on 'anger' and the third one is on"Metanoia". The last one is a conversation between Sr. of Mercy Janet Ruffin and Fr. Bryan Massingale from Fordham University.  To access the links to these recordings, please go to http://pages.commonwealmagazine.org/events/. 

Voter Participation and the Common Good:  Political Strategies, Moral Questions, Catholic Principles - this is a presentation from the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life that was held on June 21 and has been recorded.  The YouTube link is 

You might also be interested in listening to the 1619 Project podcasts.  This series of podcasts discusses how slavery transformed America.  You can access this audio series at  1619-podcast.html .

Enjoy your summer break and the good reading!  Peace and all good things to you!

Zelda and Lou