If you were unable to attend the Mass of Transferal For Most Reverend John H. Ricard, SSJ, or view the livestream, the recording is available for you to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHuS4s-3HM
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Bishop Ricard, first Black bishop to serve as Baltimore auxiliary and cousin of Archbishop Fabre, dies at 86
By Barb Fraze, Catholic Review/OSV News
Retired Bishop John H. Ricard, the first Black bishop to be an auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and to head the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, died May 20 at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Washington.
Bishop Ricard, also a nationally respected advocate for racial justice and a cousin of Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre, was 86.
Young Carmelite from Cameroon is now known as “venerable”
By Philip Kosloski | Aleteia
At the moment, there are no native canonized saints from Cameroon, but over the past decade several causes for canonization have progressed and are closer to an official proclamation of sainthood.
One such cause involves a young Carmelite friar who died in 2006 at the age of 24. Recently Pope Leo XIV declared him “venerable,” recognizing his life of “heroic virtue.”
Funeral Arrangements for Bishop John Ricard have been announced
MASS OF TRANSFERRAL: OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC CHURCH
1600 MORRIS ROAD SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20020
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2026
VISITATION: 10:00 A.M.
MASS: 11:00 A.M.
LIVESTREAM: youtube.com/@OurLadyofPerpetualHelpSEDC or facebook.com/OurLady.ofPerpetualHelp.DC?mibextid=ZbWKwL
MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL: CATHEDRAL OF THE SACRED HEART
1212 E MORENO STREET, PENSACOLA, FL 32503
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2026
VISITATION: 10:00 A.M.
MASS: 11:00 A.M.
LIVESTREAM: ptdiocese.org/funeral
VISIT THE WEBSITE: https://ptdiocese.org/
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery
By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia | The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”