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Pax Christi: An Anti-Racism Perspective on Open Wide Our Hearts, the November 2018 Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Racism
In November of 2018, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a pastoral letter on racism, “Open Wide Our Hearts”. Many had hoped that this long-awaited document 1 would be an improvement over the bishops’ decades-earlier, 1983 pastoral on racism, “Brothers and Sisters To Us,” whose curious title itself reflected the racial chasm existing between Black Catholics and their white counterparts. (For if People of Color were “Brothers and Sisters to Us,” who were the “Us”? White people, presumably.)