Religion Black Catholics celebrate Juneteenth, reckon with church’s history of slavery. Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the first African American cardinal, presided over a special Mass at Mt. Calvary ...

Of the 50 million Catholics in America, only about 3 million are African American. The history of Black Catholics in the United States spans from colonization and enslavement to Black parishes founded ...

Newport Beach, California, Feb 28, 2023 / 12:55 pm. Among the history revisited for Black History Month, Catholics would do well to recall that there are currently six African American Catholics ...

Hamilton’s family story reflects a history that many African American Catholics in Chicago share. Her mother migrated to Illinois from New Orleans in the 1940s and joined Sacred Heart, already a ...

According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, there are over three million African American Catholics in the United States today, there are 250 African American priests, 437 ...

As the number of American priests declines, Catholic missionaries from Kenya, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa are filling pulpits across the U.S.

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange -- a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States' first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 -- has advanced another step toward sainthood.

There are 11 white Americans — and 0 African Americans — among the 10,000 saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. “ Zero Black American saints. Zero Americans-of-African-descent saints,” ...

African Americans make up at least 3% of Catholics in America, a number that could be 1.375 billion, according to the Association of Statistics of American Religion Bodies, which issues those ...

100 of more than 900 documented burials were moved to Myrtle Hill — which was a white-only cemetery — raising questions about where the Black burials are today.

Now Louisville has its first African American Catholic leader. Archbishop Shelton Fabre, who was appointed to his post in March, is the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ...

With an eye to establish a parochial school on the site, in 1925-26, the remains of those buried at St. Mary’s were transferred to the newly created Catholic section at Myrtle Hill Cemetery or ...