Four African-American scholars met with a papal representative in Rome this week to discuss the need for economic repair in response to the Church's role in the slave trade.
Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester has issued a decree forbidding a Black Catholic, Jesuit school in his diocese from identifying as Catholic, following the school’s refusal to remove Black Lives Matter and Pride flags from its campus. The flags at the all-boys middle school in Massachusetts had previously been
Servant of God Julia Greeley has perhaps the most active cause among the six US Black Catholic saints-to-be, and a prayer union is her guild's latest initiative.
The latest US mass shooting occurred Tuesday in Texas, the worst since Sandy Hook in 2012. Black Catholics around the country—and the pope—have responded.
The nation's most prominent Catholic see has announced it will not follow San Francisco's archbishop in denying the Eucharist over abortion.
Pope Francis has once again spoken out in support of LGBT Catholics, part of a wave of support expressed since 2019, and especially in the past year.
A number of miracles that could bring about the first-ever beatification of an African American are now being inspected by official investigators from Rome.
A predominantly Black Catholic school in Worcester, MA has been targeted in a statement from its bishop after displaying social justice flags for more than a year.
One of the nation's two Black ordinaries has been tapped to head the Archdiocese of Louisville, making history as the first-ever non-White person in the role.
BCM editor Nate Tinner-Williams gives his take on abuse, racism, and the upcoming 2023 Synod of Bishops.
Ahead of Christmas, the Vatican has issued new guidance on COVID-19, no longer allowing unvaccinated employees to use negative tests to come to work and receive pay.
A letter-writing initiative to expedite the sainthood causes of African Americans is sending several hundred letters to the Holy See this week.
A noted HIV/AIDS activist from New York is headed to Rome later this week to commemorate a historic meeting with Pope St John Paul II.
Louisiana's favorite Black nun is the subject of the latest event from Buffalo's Black Catholic ministry, and a petition to Rome including her cause is also on the docket.
In Philadelphia Thursday night, a conservative Black theologian teamed with an aggrieved German cardinal to discuss the meaning of Catholicism. The results were not pretty.
Dioceses around the world opened their portion of the Synod of Bishops on Sunday, including Washington DC—one of two in the US headed by an African-American.
