A Catholic educator from Texas says teaching students about Black Catholic saints and other holy men and women of color “gives not only representation, but new role models for all of our students.” ...
Daniel Rudd, Mary Elizabeth Lange and Augustus Tolton (CNS photo/courtesy National Black Catholic Congress/courtesy of the Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Records Center/courtesy of the Catholic ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change ...
On Oct. 19, 1862, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore — the ...
The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change. Amid the ...
If the Golden Rule is essential, then so is belonging. In Christ, we are called into communion, into a Body where every member matters. A new podcast encouraging biblical literacy for youth is set to ...
Jeannine Hill Fletcher’s Grace of The Ghosts is an unflinching, multifaceted, and engrossing work that can be read as a Catholic sequel to her 2017 survey, The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, ...
Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi ...