Actor is ‘transformed’ by portraying Father Tolton in theater production
Jim Coleman wasn’t at all interested in portraying Father Augustus Tolton in a national traveling theater production.
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by bcadmin | Jul 9, 2022 | Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father Augustus Tolton, News, Racism, Theater | 0 |
Jim Coleman wasn’t at all interested in portraying Father Augustus Tolton in a national traveling theater production.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 21, 2022 | Black Catholics, Church in the US, Father Augustus Tolton, miracles, News, saints and martyrs | 0 |
The local ABC-TV affiliate in Quincy, where Father Augustus Tolton grew up and is buried, reported April 14 that Vatican representatives were in the United States to investigate possible miracles related to the priest’s sainthood cause.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2022 | Archdiocese of Louisville, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father Augustus Tolton, News, Sainthood cause, slavery | 0 |
Father Augustus Tolton was ordained April 24, 1886, in Rome, died in 1897 in Chicago and is on the path toward sainthood. Pope Francis declared in June 2019 that Tolton lived a life of heroic virtue, giving him the title of “Venerable.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Bishop Brendan Cahill, Bishop Curtis J. Guillory, Black Catholics, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father Augustus Tolton, News, Racial justice, Racism, Texas | 0 |
“Racial reconciliation — reconciliation in general — is a matter of the heart,” retired Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont, Texas, said during a recent night of prayer and discussion about race relations in the U.S.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2021 | Archdiocese of Baltimore, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father Augustus Tolton, Julia Greeley, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, News, Pope Francis, Sainthood cause | 0 |
When Sister Rita Michelle Proctor was a young child, she was taught by the Oblate Sisters of Providence from grades three to 10.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2020 | Father Augustus Tolton, News, Racial injustices, Racism, Tolton, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Father Augustus Tolton, the first identified Black priest ordained for the United States, would likely be disappointed by what he sees going on in the United States today, said Father David Jones, pastor of St. Benedict the African Parish in Chicago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Black History Month, Commentary, Father Augustus Tolton, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, News, Sister Thea Bowman, Thea Bowman | 0 |
During my time at Aquinas High School in La Crosse, I was privileged to have a young Sister Thea Bowman as a teacher during my sophomore year.
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