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May 28, 2025
Holy Family Catholic School honors retiring principal who helped save it from shutdown
KATC3
Rogers Griffin was hired to shut the school down. Instead, he helped save it—and led it for more than two...
May 27, 2025
Could Leo XIV be the first African American pope? His New Orleans roots say yes | Column
Pennlive.com
By Joyce M. Davis | jdavis@pennlive.com People all over the world are still celebrating the transformation of Cardinal Robert Francis...
May 27, 2025
God’s love is generous, not calculating, pope says at first audience
NCR Online
Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service The Gospel parable of the “wasteful sower” who casts seeds on fertile soil as...
May 27, 2025
Charlene Roberts-Hayden, pioneering computer scientist and Black Catholic official, dead at 86
Black Catholic Messenger
The Massachusetts native helped popularize a formerly top-secret coding language and later led the Black Catholic office in the Archdiocese...
May 21, 2025
African American award recipients are ‘a wonderful example of hope,’ archbishop says
The Record
by Ruby Thomas | The Record The Archdiocese of Louisville’s Office of Multicultural Ministry hosted its 37th annual African American Catholic...
May 20, 2025
New Trappist meditation garden honors the enslaved in South Carolina
Black Catholic Messenger
Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner planned the new project after discovering unmarked graves believed to belong to enslaved African Americans....
May 20, 2025
St. Moses the Black parishioners offer warm Detroit welcome to Archbishop Weisenburger (PHOTOS)
Detroit Catholic
DETROIT — On Sunday, May 18, Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger celebrated Mass at St. Moses the Black in Detroit, gathering with...
May 13, 2025
The 5 Prayers Revealed at Fatima that Every Catholic Should Know
ChurchPop
“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do...
May 13, 2025
Send a Video Message to Pope Leo XIV: Here’s How You Can Encourage Our New Holy Father!
ChurchPop
The software development company eCatholic plans to deliver messages of encouragement to Pope Leo XIV. Here’s how you can participate!...
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