Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, National Black Congress, News, Racial Justice
Noted lecturer, author, leader in the national Black Catholic movement and Baltimore native Therese Wilson Favors was among nearly 90 presenters at the 13th National Black Catholic Congress held at National Harbor, Md., in July.
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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, National Black Congress, News, Racial Justice
Archbishop William E. Lori, himself a delegate to the NBCC, said that the congress is and has been “vitally important” for the Archdiocese of Baltimore because it enables “the Black Catholic community to come together to acknowledge and share their gifts, to discuss pastoral needs and opportunities, and to plan for evangelization, to plan for exerting influence and even transformation in the life of the larger church, and particularly on issues of combating racism.”
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Filed Under: Amen, Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, Racial Justice
Congress XIII participants can take heart from the consecrated men and women who for decades courageously spoke truth to power as they called for the inclusion of the cultural contributions of Black Catholics to the Catholic Church during those troubling times before the Baltimore-based National Black Catholic Congress Inc. (NBCC) was established.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations
Monsignor Thomas Lee Phillips has gone from being a student challenged when learning Latin, a high school teacher and associate pastor to a highly regarded pastor of two area churches for nearly 40 years.
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Filed Under: Amen, Commentary, Racial Justice
Those of us who value the service of law enforcement should constantly pray for their strength in discerning how best to respond to troubling situations, some of which could be life threatening.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice
On March 2, 1955, Claudette was a 15-year-old frightened Black girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was jailed nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same civil disobedience, but not in the same way.
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Filed Under: Amen, Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice
The church is in a unique position to offer forums for frank discussions of race and where we go from here.
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If I had to point to one thing that stunted my motivation to evangelize, to go beyond highlighting cultural contributions of blacks to Catholicism to confidently asking others to become Catholic too, I’d have to admit it was racism.
