Church Statements
On Racial Harmony (1963)
On Racial Harmony: A Statement Approved by the Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, August 23, 1963
Nearly five years ago, we the Catholic bishops of the United States proclaimed with one voice our moral judgment on racial discrimination and segregation. This judgment of November 1958 simply reaffirmed the Catholic position already made explicit in a much earlier Statement in 1943. In the present crisis, we wish to repeat those moral principles and to offer some pastoral suggestions for a Catholic approach to racial harmony.