Faculty Fellow Rev. Paulinus I. Odozor, CSSp (theology and Africana studies), was interviewed by Crux in an article titled “Church must be part of a solution to ‘cry of anguish’ from Floyd killing, priest says.” Ozodor spoke about the Black Lives Matter movement and related protests.
“For many centuries, the world has been living the legacy of slavery, colonialism and super-power domination and expansionism [...] What we are now witnessing is that many groups on whose backs and against whose dignities these systems were built up are becoming very restive and are asking to be treated rightly as human beings,” he said. “The church must be part of this movement for liberation. After all, our founder came to set prisoners free. Catholic social teaching already contains elements of what the Church teaches on this issue. But that is not enough.”