After Vatican said ‘God cannot bless sin,’ some LGBTQ people leave Catholic identity behind It took me this long to recognize that I can let go of anything that hurts me, said Eder Santillan, 35. The Vatican City flag, left, and a pride flag. Images courtesy of Creative Commons
April 19, 2021
(RNS) For the past three years, Eder Díaz Santillan has hosted a podcast on which he interviews LGBTQ people on how they’ve coped with their gender and sexual identities while being raised in traditional Catholic upbringings. He also openly discusses his own identity as a Latino and gay Catholic man.
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This review of “The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person” is sponsored by Candlewick Press.
How does one become an antiracist? This question has been addressed and answered to varying degrees for years but was brought up with a renewed sense of urgency since the news of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and sadly too many others at the hands of the police.
One of the latest books to discuss systemic racism and social injustice is Frederick Joseph’s
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person. Joseph’s aim, as the titular Black friend, is to address and hold white and non-Black readers accountable for their ignorance and racially offensive behavior and teach them how to become aware of their racist biases and actively work to solve these problems and stop others who perpetuate racism. In other words, he lays the foundations for his readers to know and identify racism in hopes that they ultimately learn how to use this knowledge to become