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'Healing Haunted Histories' Outlines Church's Responsibility to Address America's Settler Past

David DeCosse, director of religious and Catholic ethics, published in the National Catholic Reporter.

In this recent perspective, David DeCosse reflects on Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization and poses the question, "How can the Catholic Church in the United States resist the temptation of seductively false accounts of the nation's founding that fuel the sin of nationalism?"

DeCosse writes, "The Catholic Church in the United States should face our difficult past neither intent on saving national myths nor on vindicating postmodern identity theory. Instead, the essential inspiration should come from the convictions of Christian faith."

David DeCosse, director of religious and Catholic ethics, published in the National Catholic Reporter.

 

Apr 29, 2022
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