Five years ago this month, the nation and world lost a passionate defender of life and a history-maker in the Black Catholic community. She was not only a foundress and an activist, but also the first lay diocesan vice chancellor in the United States, appointed by Cardinal John O’Connor
The mother of public education in Puerto Rico was a Black Catholic born in the late 18th century. She died on this day in 1862.
Ralph Moore Jr. touts the legacies of African American Catholics on the path to sainthood, and how several of them paved the way for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A White Catholic religious brother who made waves with his support of the Civil Rights Movement has been honored in the city where he served for over six decades.
The Josephites buried a veteran Black priest of their community early this month, the sixth member to pass in the past year.
A high school student in Colorado Springs says Catholics must rally around the marginalized without caveats—especially when they are targeted with violence.
Marian apparitions in the United States are all but non-existent, but one Black Mississippian born this day in 1923 may have broken the mold. Nate Tinner-Williams explores.
A notable Black Catholic liturgist who died overseas earlier this year will be memorialized Sunday in Ohio at his former parish.
The latest renaming for the nation's most recent Black Catholic saint-to-be will take place today at a plaza on the campus of the University of San Diego.
The first Broadway theatre to be named after a Black woman unveiled its new Manhattan marquee with a star-studded ceremony earlier this month.
The nation's latest mass shooting has claimed the life of an African-American mother and wife in North Carolina, one of five victims including the shooter's brother.
A famed Black Creole of history will soon be memorialized in his hometown, near the parish he helped found nearly two centuries ago in upstate Louisiana.
Dual Black Catholic anniversaries are afoot in the Newark archdiocese, where Cardinal Joe Tobin will celebrate a Mass for the occasions on Saturday.
A devout Catholic MLB Hall of Famer, one of the first Black players in the league, will be the subject of a roundtable discussion tonight with historians and admirers.
Remembering one of the nation's greatest playwrights, not just in the frame of his well-known works, but also the undying specter of religion.
An African-American Norbertine priest in Louisiana, known for promoting the cause of Venerable Augustus Tolton, died this week of complications stemming from COVID-19.
