At the 2024 AUSCP Assembly, Fr. John Judie, reporting for the Anti-racism Working Group, said: Our anti-racism team offers you, this time around, Year III of the Strategic Plan: “Dismantle the Structural and Deeply Systemic Racism in Our American Society.” Now, we come to the challenge to take seriously what this three-year strategic plan on anti-racism should be all about—not more paperwork to be put on a shelf but persistent and committed action to make the right difference in all of our lives. Any plan has no real value until its purpose is fulfilled by implementing what steps are called for in the plan.
After reminding us that we are all made in the image and likeness of God, he challenged us all to live in the relationship of the Trinity. Let us, then, get ourselves back to the US —the divine relationship of the Trinity in Whose image and likeness we humans were created. Amen.
The Anti-racism Working Group has continued through-out the past three years to invite all who are interested to participate in Zoom sessions on relevant topics. The latest series of Zoom sessions were held in collaboration with the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission (JPIC) and Anti-Racism Committee (ARC) of the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate, Joliet Franciscans. The series focused on learning to “understand persons of cultures other than my own” so that we more fully grasp how each person can live to her/his full potential and all of us can live well together.