By Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger
The major gift surpasses her $20 million donation in 2020 as the largest private gift in the history of the nation’s Catholic HBCU.
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Black Catholic History Month Mass 2025
Photos courtesy of Shannon Fields | CatholicKey
Bishop James Johnston gathered with parishioners and visitors of St. Monica Catholic Church in Kansas City on November 2 to celebrate Black Catholic History Month Mass. November is a month dedicated to celebrating the contributions of Black Catholics to the Roman Catholic tradition. A video of this Mass can be found on St. Monica’s Facebook page.
Pope Leo XIV will hold a 45-minute live digital encounter with U.S. high school students during the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) in Indianapolis. The session, scheduled for 10:15 a.m. ET on Nov. 21, will feature five teens asking the pope questions as part of a dialogue planned by more than 40 youth participants. Mia Smothers, one of the teens chosen to ask Pope Leo a question at NCYC, talks about her preparation for this event and what she hopes the thousands of other teens take away from it.
Archdiocese announces new initiative ‘Honoring Those Who Were Enslaved’
By Richard Szczepanowski | Catholic Standard
During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, Maryland, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington unveiled a new project that seeks to “honor those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland.”
“This is a prayerful and powerful initiative,” said Wendi Williams, the executive director of the archdiocese’s Office of Cultural Diversity and Outreach. “This is an honorable and proud act because this is not just a Black Catholic history issue, this is a social justice issue.”
Transgender treatment at Catholic hospitals: U.S. bishops vote to begin process that could formally ban it
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The U.S. bishops voted on Friday to begin a process that could lead to rules formally banning Catholic hospitals from offering medical procedures and therapies sometimes collectively described as gender-affirming care.
Meeting in Orlando for their spring meeting, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly decided via a voice vote to begin a process of revising the Ethical and Religious Directives, guidelines that draw from theology and church teaching and regulate the roughly 2,200 Catholic hospitals and health care facilities in the United States.