Tag: Black Catholics

  • June 3, 2025

St. Josephine Bakhita Mission Parish celebrates third annual Founder’s Day Mass, honors beloved African saint

During Sunday mornings at St. Josephine Bakhita Mission Parish, the singing is upbeat and energetic yet reverent. There...
  • November 1, 2022

‘Blessing is meant to be shared,’ Franciscan priest tells Black men

It was a time of Scripture, prayer, music and fellowship. It also was a night to honor the...
  • October 26, 2022

NEWS BRIEF: St. Josephine Bakhita Parish Mission to Launch Emergency Food Pantry

In an October 24th letter to members of the Black Catholic Community and St. Josephine Bakhita Parish Mission,...
  • October 18, 2022

Cardinal visits New Orleans congregation whose founder is up for sainthood

The Sisters of the Holy Family used a recent visit by Cardinal Peter Turkson to update him on...
  • September 9, 2022

History can foster understanding of present racial unrest, scholars say

When Georgetown University and the Jesuits began efforts to make amends for selling 272 enslaved people to a...
  • September 9, 2022

New documentary on Sister Thea Bowman highlights her faith, justice work

A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate...
  • August 23, 2022

Inaugural Mass for St. Josephine Bakhita Parish Mission offers sense of belonging to African American Catholics

Decorated with banners bearing the Pan-African colors of red, green, and black and an image of St. Josephine...
  • July 12, 2022

Actor is ‘transformed’ by portraying Father Tolton in theater production

Jim Coleman wasn't at all interested in portraying Father Augustus Tolton in a national traveling theater production....
  • June 26, 2022

NEWS BRIEF: New mission for the pastoral care and evangelization of African Americans and Black Catholics established 

Bishop Olmsted was pleased to announce the establishment of a new mission for the pastoral care and evangelization...
  • June 7, 2022

Could Julia Greeley be one of church’s first Black American saints?

A white marble tomb stands to the left of the altar in Denver's Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate...