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Featured Article:
The Society of the Divine Word: Ahead of its Time on Civil Rights
- From its earliest days, the Society of the Divine Word (SVD)-the largest
Catholic missionary order in the world-has welcomed people from other cultures
to sit with them at the table of Christ as equals. This willingness to engage
with people of other races, creeds and ethnic origins was never more evident
than when the society opened the first seminary for African Americans. Not
only was the seminary established decades before the Civil Rights movement of
the 1950s and 1960s, but it was established in the Deep South where racial
segregation ran the hottest.
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Black Catholic Monthly |
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"Know Our History"
| May 2 , 1968 |
Poor People's March to
Washington. |
| May 5, 1988 |
Most Rev. Eugene Marino, SSJ,
1st Black Archbishop in the U.S. |
| May 5, 1993 |
Most Rev. Terry Steib, SVD,
installed as Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee. |
| May 5 |
World Day Prayer for Vocations |
| May 6, 1962 |
St. Martin de Porres canonized a
Saint. |
| May 9 |
Ascension Day |
| May 10 |
Nelson Mandela inaugurated as
1st Black President in South Africa. |
| May 12 |
Mother's Day |
| May 19 |
Feast of Pentecost |
| May 19, 1965 |
Patricia Harris, first Black
American Ambassador. |
| May 20 |
St. Bernardine of Siena |
| May 21, 1987 |
National Black Catholic Congress
VI, Washington, D.C. |
| May 26 |
Feast of the Blessed Trinity |
| May 31, 1893 |
Josephites became an independent
American Community. |
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