This Summer, we’ll read and pray our way through a book by Maureen H. O’Connell, Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness. Maureen is a parishioner in Philadelphia and a professor at La Salle University, and her book explores the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s history through the lens of her Irish Catholic ancestors.

We will have peer-guided gatherings to reflect on how the sin of racism has affected not only our historical past but also continues into our present. Understanding the historical legacy we’ve inherited is the first step towards learning how to begin to heal the effects that racism has on all of us.

The first two sessions will take place on Friday, July 7th and 21st at 7pm ET. The final meeting will take place on Thursday, August 17th at 7pm ET. All sessions will take place in the Neumann Room. For the final meeting, the author, Maureen O’Connell, will join us to speak about her journey in writing the book, as well as to answer our questions.
The meetings will be co-facilitated by Marcelle McGuirk, and will be in collaboration with New Encounters: Catholics Confronting Racism.

For more information and to register, call Marcelle at (570)814-4575 or visit www.newencounters.org/events