Inside the Vatican: Praying with Our FeetA Personal Account of African Reparatory Justice
When I stepped through the gates of the Pontifical Urbaniana University this past May, I carried more doubt than certainty in my bag. For three days, during African Liberation Weekend, I watched a global circle of scholars, seminarians, artists, prophets, priests, and everyday people do something rarely done within these ancient Vatican halls; we told the truth out loud about Reparatory Justice for Africa and the African Diaspora. We demanded that the Church help deliver it.
During this African Union’s first Year of Reparatory Justice for Africa and the African Diaspora, we navigated the grounds that have shaped the Church’s moral authority for centuries. The Vatican Symposium was more than an academic talk event where people pontificate ideas about what they want. Rather, it was a healing in practice that can no longer be ignored.