A Catholic educator from Texas says teaching students about Black Catholic saints and other holy men and women of color “gives not only representation, but new role models for all of our students.” ...
Jackie Bolware regularly attends the annual Mass in Celebration of Black Catholic History Month. She said that every year ...
The history of Black Catholics and other marginalized people in the U.S. church covering more than two centuries is one worth knowing and can guide the church's response to the challenges of racism ...
Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi ...
Kalaupapa in Hawaii was a settlement where people with Hansen's disease, or leprosy, were quarantined. Two saints spent years ...
Daniel Rudd, Mary Elizabeth Lange and Augustus Tolton (CNS photo/courtesy National Black Catholic Congress/courtesy of the Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Records Center/courtesy of the Catholic ...
Fordham University, which touts itself as a "Jesuit, Catholic university" employs a professor who condemns Christianity as a racist religion from its early history. Professor Magda Teter, who serves ...
For most of us, the word “battlefield” conjures up images of historic places associated with conflict, like the fields of Gettysburg or the beaches of Normandy. The battlefields of today, however, are ...
Teachers from Roman Catholic schools who attended a recent course on the Holocaust here say the workshop has motivated them to work through education to ease the lingering effects of historical ...
(AP/WJZ) -- Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by ...
Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi ...