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By Jacqueline Burkepile | ChurchPop
How will you obtain the many graces the Catholic Church offers during the Lenten season?
Lent is a 40-day penitential season of preparation for the celebration of Easter. During this sacred time, Catholics are called to deeper prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and repentance, with particular meditation on the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ.
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The NBCC welcomes Vice Chair Lawsikia Hodges to the Black Catholic Commission for the Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida. Read more in the recent article in Estebana Magazine.
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By James T. Keane | America the Jesuit Review
In June of 2014, America literary editor Raymond Schroth, S.J., collected book recommendations from a number of Black theologians, including Kim R. Harris, Diana L. Hayes, the Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, Cecilia A. Moore and Andrew Prevot. Senior among the contributors was a giant of American Catholic history and a Black Catholic pioneer who would die less than a year later: Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.
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Norman C. Francis, the stalwart city leader in civil rights, business and education who led Xavier University for nearly half a century, died early Wednesday morning (Feb. 18) at Oschner Hospital. He was 94 years old.
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From The Catholic University of America
“Black Catholicism is a gift to the Church,” said Ansel Augustine, assistant director of African American Affairs with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church. In partnership with Campus Ministry, Law Professor Veryl Miles led an on-campus discussion with Augustine in honor of Black History Month. Miles also serves on the University’s Sister Thea Bowman Committee, a campus-wide initiative advancing Bowman’s legacy.