Pilgrimage Participant Responses to March Readings
1.
Your name
2.
James Cone asserts that the Catholic Church has failed recognize White
supremacy as a theological problem. What does he mean by this? Do you see this in your lived reality of the Catholic Church? What do you believe is “the arrogance of White theology”? (Cone, 739)
3.
Shawn Copeland centers her understanding of racism around the experience of the body. She writes that “the black struggle for authenticity is coincident with the human struggle to be human.” (Copeland, 21) How do you interpret this based on what we’ve read previously? How do we understand the black body in the Christian context of humanity?
4.
Mary Louise Smith is not as well known as Rosa Parks, yet she helped change history. What did you learn about Mary Louise Smith that you did not know before. What inspired you?