An over 70-year-old historic Black Catholic Church in north Charlotte is set to receive a much-needed multimillion-dollar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black Catholics have long struggled to find their place within the Catholic Church. The church’s own past transgressions with ...

This is a still from the recently released documentary "Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics" from the Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington. It tells the story of ...

As the Black Catholic Messenger celebrates its fifth anniversary, editor Nate Tinner-Williams tells Word In Black about its journey — from startup blog to international newsroom documenting the faith, ...

EXCLUSIVE: On Venerable Augustus Tolton, former slave-turned-Catholic priest: ‘He carried his crosses in life quietly and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...

On September 11, 2017, Bishop George Murry, S.J., of Youngstown, Ohio, spoke at Boston College as a Church in the 21st Century Center Episcopal Visitor. Excerpts from his address are below. In 1989, ...

The first publicly recognized Black priest in the United States, Augustus Tolton, may not be a household name. Yet I believe his story – from being born enslaved to becoming a college valedictorian – ...

The sanctuary of the 70 year old church closed five years ago, with mass moved into the gymnasium ...

Founded in 1990 by the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, Black Catholic History Month runs throughout November each year as an opportunity to highlight the heritage, patrimony, and witness of ...

Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., was a prominent figure in the American church after the Second Vatican Council due to, among other achievements, his scholarship on Black Catholics, theology, spirituality, ...

Black Catholics have long struggled to find their place within the Catholic Church. The church’s own past transgressions with racism — excluding Blacks from leadership roles, establishing segregated ...