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By Paula Katinas | The Tablet
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — When Darcel Whitten-Wilamowski, director of the Sister Thea Bowman Mass Choir, learned that in his first encyclical Pope Leo XIV issued a formal apology for the Catholic Church’s role in slavery, she was overjoyed.
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The 45-year-old chaplain is set to become the nation’s youngest Catholic prelate and the latest African-American auxiliary bishop in Washington.
The consecration of Auxiliary Bishop-elect Robert Boxie III—the first new African-American Catholic prelate in nearly a decade—will take place Tuesday, July 7, the Archdiocese of Washington has announced.
The consecration Mass will take place at 2pm ET in the upper church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where Boxie is expected to become the nation’s youngest Catholic prelate, at just 45 years old. He will be consecrated alongside another auxiliary bishop-elect, Fr Gary Studniewski.
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BY DAVID GRUNFELD | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NOLA.COM
Nearly five years after Hurricane Ida inflicted heavy damage on St. Augustine Catholic Church, one of New Orleans’ most important Black Catholic churches, the parish on Sunday gathered to celebrate its first Mass back inside the sanctuary after a major renovation.
“We’re back home,” said the Rev. Emmanuel Mulenga.
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By Katie V. Jones | Catholic Review
In a quiet classroom at Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent, Sister Constance Fenwick has spent 44 years doing something schools too often cannot: giving every student her complete, undivided attention.
From her post at the Mount Providence Reading and Math Center in Arbutus, the Oblate Sister of Providence works one-on-one with students of all ages and abilities, patiently coaxing reluctant learners and celebrating small victories that add up to transformed lives. The relationships she builds run deep – sometimes unexpectedly so.
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By Gina Christian | OSV News
(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV’s acknowledgment of the Church’s role in slavery is “only proper and just,” said Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr., who is president of the National Black Catholic Congress.
And the task ahead is to take concrete action to heal slavery’s legacy, added the prelate, who retired recently as an auxiliary bishop of Washington.