US bishops, black evangelicals discuss family life on anniversary of Moynihan report

June 16, 2015

Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then Assistant Secretary of Labor, raised the alarm about the increase rates of illegitimate births among African Americans, a group of US bishops gathered with black evangelical leaders to discuss family life.

“The black family is historically acknowledged as being the reason the African American community has been able to sustain some of the harshest treatment in the history of humanity,” said Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“The debate of culture versus economics looms all around us, but our people struggle because of a lack of hope and could care less about the winner of that argument,” added Bishop Jaime Soto, chairman of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

 

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Further information:

• Catholic Bishops Meet With Black Evangelical Leaders On Preserving African American Families (USCCB)
• Moynihan Report (Stanford University)