It's time to wake up: The Catholic Church needs women deacons now.
Daryl Grigsby on the burning need for ordained female ministry to honor Christian tradition and enliven a stagnant, monolithic permanent diaconate.
Ministry
Podcast: Fr Samuel Davis and the Black witness in Eastern Orthodoxy
One of the Greek Orthodox Church's African-American priests joins Eric Styles and Nate Tinner-Williams to discuss evangelization and ecumenism.
Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns to lead virtual celebration for feast of St. Mary Magdalene
The annual Boston College event aims to recover the history of the "apostle to the apostles" and inspire continued witness by modern Catholic women.
Gala will honor Servant of God Bernard Quinn, priest who served Brooklyn African Americans
The event will raise funds for the sainthood cause of the late Irish American, who founded ministries for the Black community of New York City.
Amid conclave, Black Catholic theologians remember Pope Francis, look to future
Drs. Kathleen Dorsey Bellow and Andrew Prevot give perspective as cardinals select a new pope to lead the worldwide Catholic Church.
Home again: On Catholic burnout and the journey of challenged faith
Sara Chinakwe narrates her journey away from the Church and back again, fueled by a pursuit of authentic encounter with God.
Martin Luther King and the Black Social Gospel
Daryl Grigsby on the sociotheological currents underlying America's most impactful religious thinker, and his allies in the fight for justice.
Has the Catholic Church truly learned hospitality?
Tamika Royes on the "Black exodus" and how to foster the welcome that all deserve in God's house.
'Seeking for a City' Black Catholic academic symposium connects histories, dreams new futures
The event marked twin anniversaries for African Americans in the Church, while looking forward to the future of ethnic expression and liberation.
In Canada and beyond, are Black women seen and heard in the Catholic Church?
Tamika Royes reflects on a pressing (and international) question in the search for egalitarian recognition.
Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of liberation theology, dead at 96
Once accused of ties to Marxism, the Peruvian Catholic priest is regarded as one of the most influential religious thinkers of the 20th century.
As Synod on Synodality nears close, leaders keep women's ordination at arm's length
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican's doctrine czar, spoke to delegates Monday after his absence from a synod event on the topic last week.
Have we seen and heard? On freedom and Catholic evangelization in urban communities
Fr John McKenzie presents a proposal for renewal in the U.S. Church as it wrestles with the question of inner-city ministry in the modern age.
Interview: Paul Albert, diocesan director and Eucharistic Congress speaker
Editor's note: Paul Albert, an administrator in the Diocsese of Savannah, was one of several Black Catholic speakers at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in July. While there, he sat down with Briana Jansky to share his journey of reversion to the Catholic Church and his
Interview: Danielle Brown, National Eucharistic Congress speaker and anti-racism advocate with U.S. bishops
Briana Jansky spoke with her on the topic of renewal in ministry, the topic of her address at the NEC in July.
Farewell to Sacred Heart Church: A unique community of faith in Joliet
Andrew Lyke on the impact of a recently closed Black Catholic parish in Northern Illinois.