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By Kathleen Goss | For the Catholic Herald

Jackie Bolware regularly attends the annual Mass in Celebration of Black Catholic History Month. She said that every year it’s different.

“Today you could hear the children clapping and singing; that’s how you know it’s a success,” she said. “You could see the faces, the appreciation, and understanding,” from the music and singing to the homily by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, she said.

By CNA Staff

Advent begins this year on Sunday, Nov. 30. Most Catholics — even those who don’t often go to Mass — know that Advent involves a wreath with candles, possibly a “calendar” of hidden chocolates, and untangling strings of Christmas lights. But Advent is much more than that. Here’s an explainer of what Advent is really about.

By Elias Turk | Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV began his second day in Lebanon on Monday with a deeply symbolic pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf, entrusting the country and the wider Middle East to the intercession of the saint whom many Lebanese, Christians and Muslims alike, invoke as the “heavenly physician.”

Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger

Sr Jamie T. Phelps, one of the nation’s most influential Black womanist theologians and a leading light of the Black Catholic Movement, has died in Michigan after a brief illness. She was 84 years old and no cause of death was released.

The Adrian Dominican Sisters, of which Phelps was the first Black member and in which she served for 66 years, announced the news on Nov. 24, two days after her death.