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Retired Black Catholic clergy in Atlanta to be honored in event Oct. 29

By Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger

Several retired Black clergy of the Archdiocese of Atlanta will be feted in an event just ahead of Black Catholic History Month, on October 29 at St. Peter Claver Regional Catholic School in Decatur, Georgia.

“Celebrating The Work: Honoring Retired Black Atlantan Priests & Deacons” is being organized by the Black Catholic Clergy of Atlanta (BCCA), a group of priests and deacons dedicated to faith sharing and “social justice, the place where Jesus dwells.”

Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, DC preaches the homily at the 2022 LA Red Mass Oct 27. Among the attendees were Orthodox Christians, Lutherans and representatives of various branches of Judaism, seen in the foreground. (Victor Alemán)

By Pablo Kay | Angelus News

By Christine Bordelon  |  Clarion Herald

Dominican Father Victor Laroche is getting to know the students and faculty and discovering his new chaplaincy duties at Xavier University of Louisiana, founded in 1925 by Blessed Sacrament Sister Katharine Drexel.

Among his first tasks was concelebrating a Mass Oct. 15 with Resurrectionist Father Manuel Williams heralding the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the university chapel named for the Philadelphia native – declared a saint in 2000 – whose inheritance was used to create schools and missions in America to educate Black and Indian children.

Images of six Catholic African Americans who have made significant contributions to their faith community are displayed Nov. 1, 2021 during All Souls Day Mass at St. Ann Church in Baltimore. The Mass will be held again this year at St. Ann. (Kevin J. Parks/Catholic Review Staff)

By Catholic Review Staff | Catholic Review

For the second consecutive year, St. Ann in East Baltimore will host a special All Saints Day Mass Nov. 1 that will offer prayers for the canonization causes of six Black Americans.

Bishop John Ricard, superior general of the Baltimore-based Josephites and a former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore, will offer the 7 p.m. Mass. St. Ann is under the pastoral care of the Josephites as part of a pastorate that also includes St. Francis Xavier and St. Wenceslaus in East Baltimore.