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 ...

This was 50 years ago. Moore has since returned to the church and is now part of a lay Catholic effort that’s pushing Pope Francis to canonize six African American candidates into sainthood.

WASHINGTON -- African-American Catholics are much more engaged in their church on a variety of levels than are white Catholics, concludes the first National Black Catholic Survey.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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,” ...

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.