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by bcadmin | Mar 12, 2022 | Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Franciscan Friars, News, Obituary | 0 |
Franciscan Father James E. Goode, whose evangelizing work among Black Catholics became known throughout the United States and earned him the title “dean of Black Catholic preachers,” died in his sleep March 4 in New York. He was 81.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2022 | Archdiocese of Hartford, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Racism | 0 |
Deacon Arthur Miller, of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut, shared this memory of Emmett Till, his boyhood neighbor and schoolmate, in a recent talk hosted by the Diocese of Springfield at the Bishop Marshall Center.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Bishop John Barres, Bishop Robert Brennan, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Harrisburg, Diocese of Rockville Centre, News, Racism | 0 |
In two separate Masses marking Black History Month, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory stressed that the annual monthlong observance is not just an opportunity to celebrate the gifts and accomplishments of African Americans.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 8, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, National Black Catholic Congress, News, Washington D.C. | 0 |
Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. celebrated Mass Feb. 6 to mark Black History Month in the Archdiocese of Washington.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 8, 2022 | Black History Month, Featured, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Flanked at the front of the sanctuary by six large portraits of Black Americans whose faith-filled lives placed them on the road to possible canonization by the Catholic Church, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. celebrated Mass Feb. 6 to mark Black History Month in the Archdiocese of Washington.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | anti-racism, Archdiocese of Washington, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Jesuits, News, pastoral letter on racism, Racism, Social Justice | 0 |
People must “reject all forms of racism, bigotry and injustice” and recognize “we are each made by God and are deserving of respect and dignity because of just that,” Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said Feb. 3.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic education, Catholic Schools Week, Church in the US, faith and sports, lead, New Orleans, News | 0 |
Crux spoke with longtime ESPN anchor Stan Verrett about his alma mater, St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, and the important role it and other schools like it have in society today.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Black colleges, Black History Month, Bomb threats, Louisiana, News, U.S. & World News, Xavier University | 0 |
On Feb. 1, Xavier University of Louisiana was among a group of several historically Black colleges and universities in the United States that received bomb threats.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Art, art history, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Native Americans, News, Racism, slavery, Stamps | 0 |
Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 11, 2021 | Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic University of America, Church in the US, lead, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, sisters, Villanova University | 0 |
When it comes to the earliest orders of Black Catholic religious sisters in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams wants people to recognize the perseverance, struggle and commitment to God they put forth to make religious life possible for Black women and girls in the United States – something she considers overlooked.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 29, 2020 | Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, civil rights, Houston, News | 0 |
Gertrudejane Holliday Stone, a parishioner at St. Mary of the Purification Church in Houston, was a Freedom Rider even before the term was coined.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2020 | Black History Month, Church in the US, lead, News, Racial justice, Xavier University | 0 |
CINCINNATI, Ohio – Student leaders tackled the intersections of race, faith, and justice during a frank panel discussion at Xavier University. Dr. Marcus Mescher, the event’s organizer and an assistant professor of Christian ethics at the midwestern Jesuit university, told Crux that “many in attendance remarked that they ‘got more
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