Tag: Sister Thea Bowman
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner Harry Belafonte dies at age...
NEW YORK -- Many are remembering how Harry Belafonte, who died April 25 in New York at age 96, was so inspired by the...
Lives of Father Tolton and Sister Thea, possibly the first Black...
Their births were separated by almost a century, but Venerable Father Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) and Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990) both endured...
Sharing time with Sister Thea Bowman, a future Black Catholic saint
By Adrienne Curry
Sitting at a kitchen table in Chicago more than three decades ago, I had a chance to get to know a holy...
Holy Women: Sister Thea Bowman documentary highlights her faith, justice work
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice...
Sister Thea Bowman, already with a case for canonization, has street...
WASHINGTON -- Officials at The Catholic University of America dedicated and blessed a campus street April 29 named in honor of the late Sister...
Six Black Americans on the road to canonization were honored during...
WASHINGTON -- Flanked at the front of the sanctuary by six large portraits of Black Americans whose faith-filled lives placed them on the road...