Claire Babineaux-Fontenot to receive 2024 Laetare Medal, highest U.S. Catholic honor
The Louisiana-born Black Catholic businesswoman is the CEO of the food bank network Feeding America, the nation's largest nonprofit.
The Louisiana-born Black Catholic businesswoman is the CEO of the food bank network Feeding America, the nation's largest nonprofit.
Several nods led to just one win across all categories, with a characteristically full slate of nominations for co-religionists from Louisiana.
Williams also won the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Award for Best Book in African American Women's History from the Association of Black Women Historians.
Dr. Craig Ford Jr. and the National Black Sisters' Conference are among this year's nominees for the award from Pax Christi USA.
Their first-ever joint senior and junior convention was held from July 13-19 in New Orleans, the city of their national headquarters.
African Americans with Catholic connections will be among those inducted in a ceremony this November in New York City.
Black nominees in the 2023 field are plenty, and several have interesting connections with the Catholic Church.
The liturgy came ahead of Saturday's commencement exercises with U.S. Rep. Troy Carter and White House OMB director Shalanda Young.
One of the earliest activists against segregated buses in Alabama, she was arrested at 18 for refusing to give up her seat to a White person in October 1955.
The honor comes for seniors Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson after they made international headlines in recent months with a new math proof.
The 75-year-old prelate will receive the Order of Lincoln at the state capitol from Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, professor emerita of systematic theology at Boston College, has been named the recipient of this year’s Civitas Dei Medal from Villanova University, which will be bestowed in a livestreamed ceremony on campus Wednesday afternoon. Copeland is the first Black awardee in the history of the
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Xavier University of Louisiana's summer institute dedicated to the study of Black Catholicism has received a prestigious award from the American Catholic Historical Association.
African Americans won two out of the five top prizes in the National Book Awards this year. Both were raised Catholic.
Next year's Grammy Awards have the potential to make history for at least one Catholic-raised African American, and various others are also up for recognition.