Tag: Black History Month

Servant of God Thea Bowman's canonization cause is moving ahead, with a Mass and ceremony marking the closure of the cause's diocesan phase to...

Two U.S. bishops Feb. 3 urged Catholics to be "faithful stewards of memory" and "courageous witnesses to truth" during Black History Month, observed in...

Students at Holy Cross School in Dover recently participated in a project for Black History Month. The students were engaged throughout the month of February...

WASHINGTON -- During Black History Month in February, Catholics are being invited to register to attend this summer's National Black Catholic Congress, which over...

WASHINGTON -- Celebrating a Feb. 5 Mass in honor of Black History Month, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory urged "ordinary people of color" to...

Mike Mastromatteo "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle," Shannen Dee Williams, Duke University Press, 2022, 424 pages. In her book...

My friend Sister Mary Hogan told me that what she remembers most vividly about her experience in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 was the "hate...

In its continuing effort to promote education, the Diocese of Wilmington Ministry for Black Catholics is drawing readers to its website at cdow.org during...

As a public-facing historian of Black women, I have always relished the fact that Black History Month and Women's History Month are successive in...

Bishop Koenig's homily on the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 2022. It was a Mass of celebration of Black History Month at St. Joseph...