Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Marquette University in Milwaukee received recently a $7.5 million gift to endow its Institute for Natural Family Planning within the College of Nursing. The Jesuit university revealed Feb. 27 the gift came from the Richard L. Boland Love for Life Foundation, Inc., also known as the Betty and Dick Boland Foundation.
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The Catholic bishops of Virginia Jan. 21 expressed “alarm and dismay at the aggressive pursuit of enshrining a ‘right'” to abortion in the Virginia Constitution by majorities in the state’s House and Senate.
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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, National Black Congress, Racial Justice
July 2023 was a busy month for Black (specifically African American) Catholics.
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The 3,000-strong congress attendees were jubilant during Mass as they sang along with the 90-member choir belting out “We’ve come this far by faith!”
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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, National Black Congress
Perusing the offerings at the exhibit hall open throughout each day of the 13th National Black Catholic Congress was a welcome task for attendees.
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Adrienne Curry, the director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, noted that her diocese’s delegation included 76 people.
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Adrienne Curry, director of the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholic Ministries, didn’t hold back any punches in her talk about the Catholic Church’s response to racism that she gave at the recent 13th National Black Catholic Congress.
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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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Catholic Standard
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Sending forth the participants of the 13th National Black Catholic Congress at their July 23 closing Mass in the Washington, D.C., area, Bishop John H. Ricard offered them an admonition that he said he learned from his days as a youth camping in the woods – “Don’t let the fire go out!”
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Celebrating the opening Mass for the National Black Catholic Congress meeting in the Washington, D.C., area on July 21, Cardinal Wilton Gregory emphasized the important role of visionaries in building a better world.
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Addressing an estimated 3,000 African American Catholics from 80 dioceses across the United States gathered for Congress XIII of the National Black Catholic Congress in the Washington, D.C., area from July 20-23, Cardinal Wilton Gregory welcomed them to “a family reunion,” and encouraged them to center their lives on the Eucharist in order to bring Christ’s love and hope to the world.
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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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