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Holy Family Catholic School encourages nursing in underserved communities

Holy Family Catholic School hosts Mini Nurses Academy to promote nursing in underserved communities
By: Ange Toussaint | KATC3 Newschannel
LAFAYETTE PARISH — The U.S. is currently experiencing a nursing shortage and, according to analysts, there’s an even greater shortage when it comes to Black nurses.
Holy Family Catholic School is looking to fill the gap with its ongoing Mini Nurses Program.

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‘Write the vision’: Another perspective on the Baltimore parish mergers

An undated photo of Fr Raymond Harris at Mount St. Mary’s University in Baltimore. (Mike Morgan Photography)

Fr Raymond Harris on his work as a veteran priest of the archdiocese, and the fruits of faithful labor.

Guest Writer | Black Catholic Messenger
On the First Sunday of Advent in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the “Seek the City to Come” (STCTC) Planning Initiative reached a crucial moment. After a two-year synodal process that involved thousands of the faithful, newly merged parishes in Baltimore City and its nearby suburbs began to worship together.

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Gospel Reflection for Thursday, December 5, 2024

By Bishop Robert Barron

Cycle C/Advent/1st wk of Advent
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus closes his Sermon on the Mount by showing us the importance of applying his teaching: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse.”

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Martin Maria de Porres Ward Under Consideration To Become 7th Black Saint

by Daniel Johnson | Black Enterprise
Photo from Wikipedia (By Unknown author – (Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124268931)

Martin Maria de Porres Ward, a Black American priest who had to leave the United States to undertake his calling, is now being considered by the Catholic Church for beautification.

Martin Maria de Porres Ward, an African American priest who had to leave the United States to undertake his calling, is now being considered by the Catholic Church for beatification or sainthood. If elevated to sainthood, he would become the seventh Black figure and most recent African American to receive the honor.