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May 27, 2025 By Kimberley Hefner Leave a Comment

Charlene Roberts-Hayden, pioneering computer scientist and Black Catholic official, dead at 86

The Massachusetts native helped popularize a formerly top-secret coding language and later led the Black Catholic office in the Archdiocese of Boston.

Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger
Charlene Roberts-Hayden, a pioneering Black  computer scientist and ministry director in the Archdiocese of Boston, has died at 86 in Boston. No cause of death was released, but she had been in hospice care before her passing on May 11, according to The Boston Globe.

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May 21, 2025 By Kimberley Hefner Leave a Comment

African American award recipients are ‘a wonderful example of hope,’ archbishop says

by Ruby Thomas | The Record

The Archdiocese of Louisville’s Office of Multicultural Ministry hosted its 37th annual African American Catholic Leadership Awards Dinner on May 17 at the Hyatt Regency Louisville.

Eight young people received Rodriq McCravy Scholarship Awards and nine adults were honored for their leadership during the event.

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May 20, 2025 By Kimberley Hefner Leave a Comment

New Trappist meditation garden honors the enslaved in South Carolina

Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner planned the new project after discovering unmarked graves believed to belong to enslaved African Americans.

Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger
Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in rural South Carolina, has inaugurated a new meditation garden memorializing the enslaved African Americans and Indigenous who once worked the land, part of a larger effort for atonement at the 76-year-old institution.

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May 20, 2025 By Kimberley Hefner Leave a Comment

St. Moses the Black parishioners offer warm Detroit welcome to Archbishop Weisenburger (PHOTOS)

DETROIT — On Sunday, May 18, Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger celebrated Mass at St. Moses the Black in Detroit, gathering with members of the local Catholic community. Following the liturgy, attendees were invited to a Detroit-themed reception featuring live music and regional food.

The event brought together parishioners, clergy, and guests for an afternoon of worship and fellowship in the city, among them Isaiah McKinnon, Ph.D., former deputy mayor of Detroit, and Ron Teasley, 98, a former Negro Leagues baseball player, who greeted the archbishop after Mass.

Parishioners also offered Archbishop Weisenburger a basket of Detroit-themed gifts, including a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and apparel displaying Detroit’s “313” area code.

(Photos by Izzy Cortese | Detroit Catholic)

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May 13, 2025 By Kimberley Hefner Leave a Comment

The 5 Prayers Revealed at Fatima that Every Catholic Should Know

“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.”

The apparition of an angel and Our Lady to three poor children in Fatima, Portugal, in the early 20th century is one of the most famous miracles in the Catholic world.

The children received many messages, mostly calling for personal conversion and prayer, as well as the words of five new prayers.

The first prayer is one many Catholics are likely already familiar with, but the other four are not as well-known.

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