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The longtime academic, writer, and seminary professor was educated in Rome and transferred to the historic Eastern Catholic church in the 1990s.
Fr David Andrew Fisher, a veteran Black Catholic priest of the Maronite Church and longtime university professor, has died in Pennsylvania. He was 67 years old and no cause of death was released.
Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan, who heads the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, announced the news in a letter to the priests of the eparchy on March 30, three days after Fisher’s passing.
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By Gina Christian | OSV News
(OSV News) — Several U.S. bishops recently traveled on pilgrimage to key sites commemorating the nation’s Civil Rights Movement and the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination — with two bishops telling OSV News the journey showed the need to face the past, before seeking to change the future.
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Cheyenne Johnson, a returnee who will help lead this year’s route, will be joined by Marcel Ferrer on the six-week journey along the East Coast.
The 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will set off across the East Coast this spring, once again comprising young adult Catholics from around the country carrying prayers, praise, and the Blessed Sacrament over a six-week trek.
The annual pilgrimage, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as an outworking of its National Eucharistic Revival, is now in its third year and has the theme “One Nation Under God,” honoring the United States’ 250th anniversary.
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By Gina Christian | OSV News
The Vatican’s top diplomat to the United Nations condemned modern and historical slavery — while countering what he called a “partial narrative” in a newly adopted U.N. resolution denouncing the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity.”
The resolution also called for reparations by member states to affected nations.
Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the U.N., delivered a statement on the issue March 25, observed as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.