New documentary on Sister Thea Bowman highlights her faith, justice work
A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding.
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by bcadmin | Sep 11, 2022 | Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Documentary, Franciscans, News, religious sister, Sainthood cause | 0 |
A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 5, 2022 | Archdiocese of Denver, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Julia Greeley, News, Sainthood cause | 0 |
A white marble tomb stands to the left of the altar in Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. It is the only tomb in the whole of the building.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 8, 2022 | Black Catholics, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Sainthood cause, The Catholic University of America | 0 |
Officials at The Catholic University of America dedicated and blessed a campus street April 29 named in honor of the late Sister Thea Bowman.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | American nuns, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Maryland, News, Sainthood cause | 0 |
Mother Mary Lange, who founded the first Black Catholic school in the United States and the first religious order for women of color, is an example of courageous resilience the church needs.
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 11, 2021 | Archdiocese of New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Congregation for the Cause of the Saints, Dorothy Day, News, Pope Francis, Sainthood cause, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Vatican | 0 |
More than 1,500 people filled St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dec. 8 to witness the formal end of the diocesan phase of the sainthood cause for Dorothy Day.
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 | Dec 23, 2020 | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, lead, Mafia, martyrdom, News, News Analysis, Oscar Romero, Religious persecution, Rosario Livatino, Sainthood cause | 0 |
Rosario Livatino, 37 at the time of his death, will become the first Italian anti-mafia judge to be beatified, following in the footsteps of Father Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi, the country’s best known anti-mafia priest, who was killed in 1993 and beatified shortly after Pope Francis’s election in 2013.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Canonization, Church in the US, lead, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Sainthood cause, University of Notre Dame | 0 |
According to one University of Notre Dame professor, the revelations of the Holy See’s report on laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the totality of the clergy sex abuse crisis are grounds enough to increase the number of years after a person dies before a sainthood cause can be opened.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 16, 2020 | clerical sexual abuse, Father Marcial Maciel, lead, Monsignor Slawomir Oder, News, Sainthood cause, St. John Paul II, Theodore McCarrick, Vatican | 0 |
The official responsible for Pope John Paul II’s sainthood cause says charges of cover-up for abuser clergy were investigated and “no evidence” was found.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 24, 2020 | Acutis, Antonia Salzano, Carlo Acutis, Christus Vivit, Leukemia, News, Sainthood, Sainthood cause, Segni, Tech whiz, U.S. & World News, Vatican Dicastery for Communication | 0 |
Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today.
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