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 ...

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Nearly 100 American men and women from the United States are currently being considered for sainthood. And many Catholics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Altogether, there are only about 250 African American Catholic priests today, meaning that many of the largest Black Catholic communities, which exist in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...