Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Several U.S. Catholic bishops expressed sorrow and called out racism and gun violence after reports of a May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left at least three injured and 10 dead — a crime authorities categorized as likely motivated by hatred for Black people.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Sister Thea Bowman, one of six Black Catholics known as a “Servant of God” now that their sainthood causes are being advanced, has plenty of lessons to impart from her life to Catholics today, said panelists at a Georgetown University dialogue May 4 that featured not only personal perspectives but was also peppered with song.
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Filed Under: Archbishop Lori Milestones, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice
In his 10 years leading the Archdiocese in Baltimore, Archbishop William E. Lori has made the fight against racism one of his central themes.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints
Mother Mary Lange, who founded the first Black Catholic school in the United States and the first religious order for women of color, is an example of courageous resilience the church needs, say members of her order, the Oblate Sisters of Providence.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News
Expressing “sorrow and shame” for the complicity of Catholics in abusing Indigenous children in Canada and helping in the attempt to erase their culture, Pope Francis pledged to address the issue more fully when he visits Canada.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News
Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path of truth, justice and healing of Canada’s Indigenous communities and their relationship with the Catholic Church, said Cassidy Caron, president of the council.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice
In partnership with Maryland Legal Aid, Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore hosted its first “expungement clinic” on York Road March 19 to benefit more than 60 members of the university’s neighboring Govans community.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
A Pew Research Center study has found that only one-fourth of U.S. Black Catholics worship in majority-Black parishes.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Schools, Sports
“No Limits,” a book about Calvert Hall basketball, was received so well that Mark Amatucci and his co-authors decided to enter uncharted territory by making a documentary film tackling the same subject matter.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Schools
Ortega made history by becoming the nation’s first African American woman directly commissioned as a U.S. Air Force officer.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
New research from public records and congregation and diocesan archives has found that six congregations of the Sisters of Charity Federation have predecessors who owned slaves.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, and appointed as his successor Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux in southeastern Louisiana.
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