Descendants of Jesuit enslavement launch new research nonprofit
The Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement Historical & Genealogical Society seeks to shine a light on enslavement in the world's largest religious order.
The Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement Historical & Genealogical Society seeks to shine a light on enslavement in the world's largest religious order.
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.
Fr Ako Walker, a Redemptorist from Trinidad, will lead a candlelight prayer service at his Latino immigrant parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Toni-Moore Duggan links the experience of anti-Black hate to the suffering of Christ's Passion—and calls us to holy resistance in the present day.
Dcn Tim Tilghman recounts the beginnings of the permanent diaconate in the United States—and the American religious community that made it happen.
Anthony Brown, a Black Catholic, is leading the charge to uncover abuse in Maryland locations of the (Arch)dioceses of Washington and Wilmington.
The 70-year-old Catholic retired general was diagnosed with cancer in December—a matter he kept secret until the onset of an infection days later.
For the first time, the NBCC formed the five-year plan by surveying participants from their national gathering, held most recently in summer 2023.
A bill brought by a Black Catholic legislator could make college enrollment much simpler for graduating high schoolers in the state.
Ralph E. Moore Jr., fresh off a Rome trip to promote the first 6 Black American saints-to-be, says the lack of response is unacceptable—and typical.
The activists have long called for an exception to the notably unwieldy canonization process—which has yet to produce a single Black American saint.
Still in the festival circuit, the 2022 film does well in centering survivors and their quest to reunite their family, says Nate Tinner-Williams
The anonymous allegation against Dcn Lawrence Bell dates to the 1990s and is part of a civil lawsuit filed in Prince George's County on Monday.
In the wake of the latest National Black Catholic Congress, practitioners are making moves to keep the fire burning—and bring it back home.
Criticism has emerged, however, from some descendants of the Maryland Jesuits' slaveholding—and an infamous 1838 sale to save Georgetown University.
The event is being organized by representatives from St. Augustine Catholic Church, the mother church of Black Catholics in the nation's capital.