text: "Daniel Rudd, Homer Plessy, Thomas Wyatt Turner, A. P. Tureaud, and Victor and Constance Daniel and many others were voices of conscience calling the U.S. Catholic church to acknowledge ways it had capitulated to American racism and to use the social teaching and moral power of the faith to work for racial justice," Moore said.
  
  What "ways"?   Since the author of this piece doesn't care to mention any of them, I will mention a few:
  
  The Papacy's moral silence on the American Civil War.  No Southern Bishop or priest spoke out against the Confederacy before or  during that war.
  
  Southern churches, particularly in New Orleans, had segregated pews.  Southern Catholic schools  in the region were also segregated.
  
  Loyola University wasn't de-segregated until the 1950s (Bryant Gumbel's father was refused admittance to Loyola because of skin color).
  
  Catholic schools weren't desegregated until 1962.   
  
  Why?  Resistance of both laity and clergy.