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January 11, 2022
New Issue of In A Word
In A Word
Volume 41 No. 1 January 2022 On January 6, 2021 the light of democracy was threatened. In January of 2022...
January 7, 2022
NFCYM is Hiring!
NFCYM
Join our team today! The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry is hiring for the following positions: 1. Director of...
January 3, 2022
IN A WORD features an article remembering Beverly Carroll, pioneer for African American Catholics
In A Word
Former USCCB official and leading voice for Black Catholics dies at 75 By Mary K. Tilghman | Catholic News Service...
January 3, 2022
CRS Program Development Fellowship
Loyola Marymount University
From Loyola Marymount University: Announcing the CRS Program Development Fellowship Development of a New Online Continuing Education Program Focused on...
January 3, 2022
US Catholic clergy shortage eased by recruits from Africa
National Catholic Reporter
by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Associated Press WEDOWEE, ALABAMA — Fr. Athanasius Chidi Abanulo — using skills honed in his African homeland to minister...
January 3, 2022
Atonement Father Carter dies at 91; was longtime leader in Brooklyn
Crux
By Catholic News Service | Photo credit: Franciscan Friars of the Atonement BROOKLYN, New York — Father Martin Carter, a Franciscan...
December 17, 2021
Notre Dame receives nearly $1 million Lilly Endowment grant to help Department of Theology expand summer immersion and Spanish language programs for master’s degree students
University of Notre Dame
Author: Beth Staples The University of Notre Dame has been awarded nearly $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to equip students in...
December 16, 2021
The African American Catholic Youth Bible® is now available as an e-book!
Saint Mary's Press
NEWS RELEASE Saint Mary’s Press, in collaboration with The National Black Catholic Congress, Inc., is proud to present The African American...
December 14, 2021
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Pew Research Center
By Gregory A. Smith | Photo by Gregory Hayes on Unsplash The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in...
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