Podcast: Fr John McKenzie on modern urban Catholic evangelization (BCM show #14)
The African-American Catholic priest in Detroit shares on his life of faith as well as the triumphs and trials of inner-city outreach in the modern U.S. Church.
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60 days later: Introspection is needed on White Catholic rejection of Kamala Harris
Ahead of Inauguration Day, Efran Menny offers food for thought on the bankruptcy of the Catholic moral vote and how to pick up the pieces.
Archdiocese seeks to sell historic Black Catholic school in New Orleans
The Couvent School building, which for centuries housed institutions serving the poor, was previously acquired by the chancery via a legal loophole.
Dueling ideologies and a curious case of the cat-got tongue at 2024 bishops' meeting in Baltimore
Would that the nation's Catholic prelates took a stand on social clarity (and charity) in 2024. Alas, it was not so, writes Nate Tinner-Williams.
Archbishop Shelton Fabre elected USCCB domestic justice chair
The vote was held during a public session at the bishops' fall general assembly, which also featured a presentation on Black Catholic History Month.
Which is the 'lesser evil' this November?
Dr. Ronald E. Smith on how to interpret Pope Francis' recent voting guidance for Catholics in the United States.
What does JD Vance—and Springfield, Ohio—owe Haitian immigrants?
Jack Champagne on the GOP vice presidential candidate's fixation on the immigrant other—and the malformed Catholic imagination that animates it.
Catholic Action reps renew 'Pact of the Catacombs' in Rome, marking solidarity with the poor
It was part of a 4-day conference on the lay apostolate animated by synodality and the "See, Judge, Act" method of Servant of God Joseph Cardijn.
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.
S.C. court ruling on vouchers will hurt low-income families, Charleston Diocese says
South Carolina's high court ruled this week that a program allowing parents to use public funding for private schools is unconstitutional.
How to vote with Catholic social teaching—and Pope Francis
Dr. Ronald E. Smith on how the Church's guidance can help American voters make divinely informed decisions at the poll this fall and always.
Martha Hennessy, granddaughter to Servant of God Dorothy Day, will speak at National Eucharistic Congress
The 69-year-old peace activist moves in the vein of her vaunted ancestor, and was recently invited to the landmark U.S. Catholic event after months of rejection.
Seven inner-city independent Catholic schools in New York to revert to archdiocese
The Partnership for Inner-City Education nonprofit had administered the schools, some of which are majority-Black, for more than a decade.
Ralph McCloud to receive Eileen Egan Peacemaker Award from Pax Christi USA
The longtime administrator departed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in April as the highest-ranking lay African American in the Catholic Church.
Read: Open letter to U.S. bishops on the future of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
A group of young Catholics is pushing the USCCB ahead of their spring plenary, where the CCHD could be on the chopping block. Read their open letter.
The Baltimore Archdiocese proposes closing 40 churches. A fourth are Black.
Most of Charm City's historic Black Catholic parishes are on the chopping block in an archdiocese mired in legal troubles due to clerical sex abuse.