St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore celebrates 150 years this Sunday
A formerly Czech parish in Charm City, now a thriving African-American community, will mark a century and a half of ministry and service this weekend.
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Interview: Sr Stephanie Henry, the new president of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by St Katharine Drexel, have elected an African-American president for the second time in history. She spoke with BCM on their mission in the modern world.
Archbishop Shelton Fabre to receive pallium on September 20
The nation's newest Black Catholic archbishop will receive the accompanying papal vestment during a special Mass next week in Louisville.
Poem: '5 Years Later: for Us (For Martin)'
A poem in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Fr Joseph Brown, SJ, a Black Jesuit priest and professor at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
Review: 'Afro-Atlantic Catholics' is the Black history of the Americas, remixed
A new book on Black Catholics in the Americas traces Church history in colonial West Africa through the slave trade and its peculiar influence on African-American Christianity.
Museum linked to Louisiana Black Catholic history to close October 1
A recently founded museum in Southeast Louisiana is closing its doors at the end of the month, following a flurry of difficulties related to funding.
Where to celebrate the feast of St Peter Claver (2022 edition)
One of several major feast days for US Black Catholics, that of St Peter Claver is upon us, and events are happening around the country to usher in a spirit of justice.
Ahead of two Jazz Masses Sunday in Detroit, an explainer on America's most unique Catholic liturgical form
Nate Tinner-Williams dives into the history of Jazz Mass in the Church, a phenomenon dating back to the 1950s and the beginnings of bona-fide Black Catholic liturgy.
Black founders of Villanova University honored with new $7.5M deanship
A Black Catholic couple noted as some of the first donors and partners in the establishment of Pennsylvania's largest Catholic university were honored by an anonymous donor late last month.
Opinion: White Jesus isn’t always right
Does the Church have a responsibility to show Jesus in a way corresponding to his historical appearance and in the diversity of local cultures? Ashley Paul thinks so.
The former slaveholder who founded a convent and became a Black ministry pioneer
The founder of Texas' first women's religious order died 115 years ago Thursday. Nate Tinner-Williams explores her shocking life story.
'It’s just going too slow': Descendants speak out as Jesuits' slavery foundation flounders
Descendants on all sides of the debate over the Jesuits foundation meant to atone for slaveholding are crying foul over the order's slow fundraising and lack of transparency.
Registration open for Our Mother of Africa Chapel silver jubilee
The nation's largest Black Catholic monument will celebrate 25 years next month with a Mass and celebration in Washington, DC.
A tweet in time: Black Catholics in the age of liturgical shaming
A Black parish in Mobile was the subject of online controversy after posting a video of a parishioner dancing at Mass. Nate Tinner-Williams explains.
The Black Pope and slavery: silence amid the madness
The Jesuit's top priest paid a mostly secret visit to the US last week, and one Black Catholic academic says African Americans deserved much more.
Mass commemorating 101 years since Catholic priest killed by Klan
An Irish-American priest killed by the Klu Klux Klan in 1921 and rumored for sainthood since will be honored in a memorial Mass this month in Alabama.