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Black Catholic Round-up, Thanksgiving Edition (11/26/2020)

The Thanksgiving 2020 edition of the Black Catholic Round-up, an aggregation of Black Catholic news and media from around the country.

, and Nate Tinner-Williams

November 26, 2020 . 9:13 AM

3 min read

The latest entry in our #BlackCatholicRoundup series, which amplifies Black Catholic news coming from other outlets. (Note: inclusion here does not necessarily indicate BCM's full endorsement of the story's material.)

History

Though the story obscures it somewhat, Mother Emma was indeed a Black Catholic.

Note: incorrectly calls Bishop Joseph Francis, SVD, consecrated auxiliary bishop of Newark in 1976, the first African-American bishop. That would be Bishop James Healy (1875), Bishop Joseph Bowers (1953), Bishop Harold Perry (1966), or Bishop Joseph Howze (1977)—depending on one's criteria.

Belmead on the James put in a bid to receive all of the statues, but it is not clear if this refers to the (presumably Black-led) nonprofit established to save the former site of two Black Catholic schools—commemorated here in BCM—or to the man who later purchased the property.

A reflection from a Traditionalist parish in D.C. on an Oxford Movement priest who ministered to Black Catholics in the area during the early- to mid-20th century. Though he did not desegregate his congregation, he augmented the practice of segregated seating by celebrating Mass separately for Black congregants in the church basement. He later became their pastor at a new parish in Fort Stanton, and they presumably helped donate his gravesite memorial marker.