The founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, Venerable Mary Lange, was raised in Cuba before coming to America. A 2021 film explores the Oblates' work there after Lange's death.
Firebrand conservative commentator Candace Owens has announced her conversion to Catholicism, describing it on social media April 22 as a "decision to go home."
Louisiana's extension of the statute of limitations for child sex abuse has been ruled unconstitutional in a split decision hinging on the due process clause of the state's constitution.
Sr. Mary Roger Thibodeaux, a veteran member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and a leading Catholic light of the 20th-century Black freedom struggle, has died in Pennsylvania.
The 100-year-old school is one of several small, significantly Black Catholic colleges to announce closure recently due to long-term financial struggles.
Tevin Williams writes about his hope that this Lenten season, "Black Catholics will recognize that in spite of the injustices and odds against us and the standard of perfection often required of us, we will prevail just as Jesus did."
This book contributes a thoughtfully and collectively crafted starting point for the importance of preaching racial justice, moving toward how the church might begin to respond — by speaking directly to its people.
For years, a Baltimore group has been petitioning the pope to make a move regarding the first six African American Catholics on the path to sainthood. In October, they finally received a meeting with the Vatican's saint-making office.
If we want to have serious discourse about being pro-life, it's imperative that we as church put the issue of Black maternal health at the forefront of the movement, and address structural racism in our medical system.
Briana Jansky of Tyler, Texas, explains how Bishop Joseph Strickland — removed from his post this month by the Vatican — led her flock astray and nearly sabotaged her faith.
Catholic Religious Organizations Studying Slavery (CROSS) met in St. Louis recently for two days of presentations, prayer and possibilities at the intersection of Catholic archives and the nation's original sin.
A fun ride through music history, featuring the ethnoreligious community that seems to have made it all possible. In the history of American music, the Black Catholic influence is, quite simply, off the charts.
The nation's largest Black Catholic organization honed in on Gov. Ron Desantis' defense of new public ed standards that characterize slavery as beneficial.
The April 28 birthday event in New Orleans for the rap mogul Master P, a Black Catholic, honored his daughter Tytyana Miller, who died in 2022 from an accidental fentanyl overdose.
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York, the nation's lone Black Catholic member of Congress, has spoken out about reports that President Joe Biden may soon reinstate Trump-era family detention policies.