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June 2, 2025
Black Catholic Spirituality | A voice crying out in Gospel joy
Catholic Key
Sister Thea Bowman and the soul of Black Catholic spirituality By Father Leonard Gicheru | Catholic Key “What does it...
May 29, 2025
What Pope Leo XIV Means to Black Catholics in the Birmingham Region
Birmingham Times
By Sym Posey and Don Rhodes II | The Birmingham Times “Shocked and excited.” “A powerful moment.” “Overwhelming.” “A pope for...
May 29, 2025
Sr Marcia Hall elected superior general of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, nation’s oldest Black Catholic order
Black Catholic Messenger
The New Jersey native and former university administrator has been a member of the Oblates, the nation’s oldest Black Catholic...
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....
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