Opinion: Archbishop Gomez' address erased Black Latinos too
Anti-Blackness is not new in the Latin American experience, but when the USCCB president embodied the phenomenon in a recent address, it upped the ante.
Justice
Black Catholic scholars help launch 'Queer Catholic Theologians of Color' project
Last month in Chicago, a group of Catholic scholars launched a new group centering LGBTQ Catholic voices in the struggle against injustice.
Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice this weekend to feature prominent Black Catholics
The nation's largest Catholic social justice conference will run Saturday through Monday, and some of the nation's premier Black Catholic activists will be teaching-in.
'Marxist cultural vision': USCCB head José Gomez decries social justice movements
USCCB President José Gomez has taken to his personal website to criticize stateside social justice movements, alleging atheism and heresy ahead of the bishops' annual meeting.
Baltimore parishes plan letter-writing campaign to Pope Francis in support of African-American saints-to-be
Black Catholic History Month, celebrated each November, is heating up this year with a Vatican-targeting initiative that could ruffle some feathers—and shake up the Roman Calendar.
Judges grant stay of execution for two Black death row inmates in Oklahoma
A federal court in Denver has granted a stay of execution for two Oklahoma inmates, one of whom claims innocence and has worldwide support for his clemency.
Gloria Purvis named inaugural fellow at Notre Dame pro-life office
Good deeds are going unpunished in South Bend—rewarded in fact, as Gloria Purvis is appointed to a pro-life fellowship aimed at centering racial justice in the Church.
In conference address, Pope Francis praises George Floyd protesters as 'collective Samaritans'
In a message to a global gathering of social justice activists, the Holy Father once again backed protests over the past year and a half for Black lives.
Andrew Lyke leading anti-racism webinar tomorrow with Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition, Franciscan retreat 10/24
Andrew Lyke is scheduled for his final ministry events as an activist, following an announcement in August that he is stepping down to focus on his family.
Opinion: Climate change is a Black Catholic issue, too
Ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Alessandra Harris argues that climate change is a matter of racism, faith, and action.
Interview: Fr Amado Picardal, CSsR, faithful witness amidst state violence in the Philippines
Zuri Davis shares an interview from 2019 with a peaceful freedom fighter overseas who is also a Redemptorist priest and hermit.
Statement from the National Association of Black Catholic Administrators on abuse of Haitian migrants
The nation's diocesan Black Catholic ministry directors lament the ongoing border crisis with Haitian migrants, and the dehumanizing response.
Pope Francis petitions Missouri governor for clemency in Ernest Johnson execution case
The Holy Father has spoken through his US emissary to request that the governor of Missouri commute the death sentence of an intellectually disabled inmate.
'A betrayal': Black Catholic head of National Urban League blasts Republican lawmakers for opposition to police reform act
The head of a leading civil rights organization has called the news of yet another dead police reform bill "unacceptable", as Congress continues to stall.
Mothers of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin scheduled for livestreamed panel at XULA tomorrow morning
Mothers of the Movement, active in the long racial reckoning of the United States since 2013, are being hosted tomorrow for a panel at the nation's Catholic HBCU.
Marc Morial joins letter to Biden on Haitian migrant abuse, deportations
A host of civil rights leaders—including a Black Catholic—have signed onto a statement decrying the treatment of Haitian migrants this week at the US-Mexico border.