BY MARK ZIMMERMANN | Catholic Standard

On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in the nation’s capital, noted that the campus ministry program there was making history of its own, with the blessing and dedication of its new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center.

Posing for a photo together after the Aug. 28, 2023 blessing and dedication of the new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center at Howard University are, from left to right, Ali Mumbach, the Catholic campus minister there; Howard University student Cameron Humes; Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy Campbell Jr.; Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain   at the university; Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory; and Howard University student Elei Nkata, a co-president for the HU Bison Catholic campus ministry program there. (Catholic Standard photo by Patrick Ryan)