Tag: Sister Thea Bowman
Holy Black Catholics: A glance at six African American candidates for...
We are greatly blessed by the contributions of Black Catholics in the church in the United States, particularly their illuminating legacy of holiness. The...
Baltimore group visits Vatican officials to advocate for canonization of Black...
BALTIMORE -- When three members of St. Ann Parish in East Baltimore sat down with leaders of the 'Dicastery' for the Causes of Saints...
Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory blesses Howard University’s new Sister Thea Bowman...
WASHINGTON -- On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain...
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...