The Catholic Studies Unit requests proposals that explore the conceptual and ethnographic viability of “brown Catholicisms.” Here, the prompt for thinking is José Muñoz’ work Sense of Brown, an episodic exploration of feelings of brownness, that is a non-identitarian way of being (manera de ser) that he names “a brown commons.” While rooted in Chicano movements in the 1970s, Muñoz concept of the sense of brown is a being-with and being-in-difference that he extends beyond Latin American and Latinx communities to mark the existence of global diasporic communities as an already-existing brown commons. Is one “manner of being brown” shaped by Catholic rituals and practices? How does “brown-ness” shape Catholicism? What might a “brown” Catholicism look like? In what ways do brown Catholic aesthetics and performances invoke alternate futurities, or create modes of being that contest and exceed the structures of coloniality?