Centre for Catholic Studies Podcast
Sep 30, 2026 · 46 min · 9 segments
As the keynote speaker at the CCS's Early Career and Postgraduate Conference 2026, Prof Vincent Lloyd of Villanova University gave a talk on 'Performing Race, Performing Grace'. Please note that due…
Vincent LloydGuest
The nation itself, like Roof, had been blind to the ongoing presence of racism in its midst and, uh, blind to racism's symbols.
First among them, uh, the Confederate flag flying at the South Carolina State Capitol.
But because of Pinckney's witness and the witness represented, uh, by victims' families, um, uh, o-- families' offers of forgiveness, the nation was now beginning to notice and to transform.
Uh, Obama reframes these political questions as decisions about how to respond to a gift by acknowledging and living up to it as we constructively work together in pursuit of shared values or by turning away from it, returning to old habits, uh, shouting instead of listening.
Uh, uh, um, we, we constructively work together in pursuit of shared values or, uh, by turning away from it, returning to old habits, shouting instead of listening when we disagree.
Uh, when he finished, he asserted that each of the nine men and women, uh, killed at Emanuel found that grace.
In his closing words, Obama pleads, quote, "May God continue to shed his grace on the United States of America." Here we have grace in the social imaginary or in a particular powerful social imaginary.
Extraordinary, undeserved, healing, teaching, saving, good, individual, and collective.
Authored by God, performed in human life, willed, uh, into being by a politician interrupting his speech with song.
I-In the early twenty-first century, US social imaginary, grace took the spotlight at a moment of national attention and reflection.
The nation itself, like Roof, had been blind to the ongoing presence of racism in its midst and, uh, blind to racism's symbols.
First among them, uh, the Confederate flag flying at the South Carolina State Capitol.
But because of Pinckney's witness and the witness represented, uh, by victims' families, um, uh, o-- families' offers of forgiveness, the nation was now beginning to notice and to transform.
Uh, Obama reframes these political questions as decisions about how to respond to a gift by acknowledging and living up to it as we constructively work together in pursuit of shared values or by turning away from it, returning to old habits, uh, shouting instead of listening.
Uh, uh, um, we, we constructively work together in pursuit of shared values or, uh, by turning away from it, returning to old habits, shouting instead of listening when we disagree.
Uh, when he finished, he asserted that each of the nine men and women, uh, killed at Emanuel found that grace.
In his closing words, Obama pleads, quote, "May God continue to shed his grace on the United States of America." Here we have grace in the social imaginary or in a particular powerful social imaginary.
Extraordinary, undeserved, healing, teaching, saving, good, individual, and collective.
Authored by God, performed in human life, willed, uh, into being by a politician interrupting his speech with song.
I-In the early twenty-first century, US social imaginary, grace took the spotlight at a moment of national attention and reflection.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.