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Bishop Perry also chairs the USCCB Committee on African-American Catholics, on which he has served since 2004,
Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Bishop Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that a new chairman be named, the USCCB said in a May 10 announcement.
Bishop Perry will be the third chairman of the committee since its creation.
In 2017, then-USCCB president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston formed the anti-racism committee to “address the sin of racism and the urgent need to come together to find solutions.” It was established in response to increasing racial tensions and white nationalist activism. Cardinal DiNardo announced the committee after white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a 20-year-old man drove a car into a counterprotest, killing one and injuring 19.
The committee played a key role in the bishops’ 2018 pastoral letter against racism, “Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love.” The letter lamented the “persistence of racism” and said it “has no place in the Christian heart.”
The committee’s new chairman brings significant experience to the role.
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Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Bishop Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that a new chairman be named, the USCCB said in a May 10 announcement.
Bishop Perry will be the third chairman of the committee since its creation.
In 2017, then-USCCB president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston formed the anti-racism committee to “address the sin of racism and the urgent need to come together to find solutions.” It was established in response to increasing racial tensions and white nationalist activism. Cardinal DiNardo announced the committee after white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a 20-year-old man drove a car into a counterprotest, killing one and injuring 19.
The committee played a key role in the bishops’ 2018 pastoral letter against racism, “Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love.” The letter lamented the “persistence of racism” and said it “has no place in the Christian heart.”
The committee’s new chairman brings significant experience to the role.
Continued below.
Chicago’s Bishop Joseph N. Perry to Lead U.S. Bishops’ Anti-Racism Committee
Bishop Perry also chairs the USCCB Committee on African-American Catholics, on which he has served since 2004,
