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National shrine planned in Illinois for Venerable Augustus Tolton: ‘It’s just...

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The first publicly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States -- who has already had 40 potential miracles through his intercession investigated --...

Black Catholic History Month: No Catholic MLKs?

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There is an enduring myth that African-American Catholics were largely absent from the freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in the...

Choosing Catholicism and celebrating Black Catholic History Month

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From the 1920s through the 1960s more than 300,000 African-Americans across the country chose to enter into communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Their...