Racism

"One love, One blood
One life you've got to do what you should
One life with each other, sisters, brothers"
-U2

Racism: the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
-Discrimination or prejudice based on race
-Discrimitory or abusive behavior towards members of an opposite race.

In this photo, Patrol Captian Charles Jackson, pictured right, and Chief Kunze, left, are subject to racism in the Missouri Higway Patrol. Charles Jackson's presence further shows the lack of black officers in Kunze's patrol division.

-Through the centuries, in so many languages, cultures, peoples, and nations, the Church has constantlly confessed this one faith, received from the one Lord, transmitted by one Baptism, and grounded in the conviction that all people have only one God and Father.

- Because of its common origin the human race forms a unity, for "from one ancestor [God] made all nations to inhabit the whole earth:

O wondrous vision, which makes us contemplate
the human race in the unity of its origin in God...
in the unity of its nature, composed equally in all
men of a material body and spiritual soul; in the
unity of its immediate end and its mission in the
world; in the unity of its dwelling, the earth, whose
benefits all men, by right of nature, may use to sustain and develop life; in the unity of its super-
natural end: God himself, to whom all ought to
tend; in the unity of the mans for attaining this
end;...in the unity of the redemption wrought by
Christ for all.

This law of human solidarity and charity, without excluding the rich variety of persons, cultures, and peoples, assures us that all men are truly brethren.

"The Church, in Christ, is like a sacrament - a sign and instrument, htat is, of communion with God and of unity among all men." The Church's first purpose is to be the sacrament of the inner union of men with God. Because men's communion with one another is rooted in that union with God, the Church is also the sacrament of the unity of the human race. In her, this unity is already begun, since she gathers men "from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues"; at the same time, the Church is the "sign and instrument" of the full realization of the unity yet to come.

As sacrament, the Church is Christ's instruments. "She is taken up by him also as the instrument for the salvation of all," "the universal sacrament of salvation," by which Christ is "at once manifesting and actualizing the mystery of God's love for men." The Church "is the visible plan of God's love for humanity," because God desires "that the whole human race may become on People of God, form one Body of Christ, and be built up into one temple of the Holy Spirit."