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Catholic Scholasticism rejects racism
Edward Fester, Catholic World Report
Thursday, September 10, 2020
There could be no clearer manifestations of racism in this sense than the institutions of slavery and segregation that once existed in the United States. The falsity and evil of racism, and thus of those institutions, clearly follows from standard Scholastic thinking about human nature and natural law.