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Racial Justice

White involvement in racial justice work is key, Catholic leaders say

December 31, 2022
By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Although 2020 protests addressing racial disparity followed more than a century of civil liberty struggles in the U.S., more white Americans have been among the crowds of demonstrators in the more recent movement demanding racial equality than in the past, something many Catholic leaders believe is key.

Cardinal Gregory blesses parish cemetery marker honoring enslaved

December 1, 2022
By Mark Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, World News

When Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory blessed a parish cemetery’s memorial plaque honoring the unknown enslaved people buried there, Nov. 26, he noted the poignancy of his participation in the service at St. Peter Claver Parish in St. Inigoes.

Catholics prepare for National Black Catholic Congress XIII

November 16, 2022
By Matthew Liptak
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

More than two dozen people from across the Archdiocese of Baltimore and beyond gathered Nov. 12 at Holy Family in Randallstown to contribute their thoughts toward visioning next year’s National Black Catholic Congress XIII.

Link between death penalty and racism can’t be ignored, advocates say

November 13, 2022
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, Respect Life, World News

Advocates working to end the death penalty say they have long seen the links between racism and capital punishment and they plan to continue to speak out about it until they see a change.

Display in Catholic Center helps highlight Black Catholic History Month

November 9, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

To kick off Black Catholic History Month, the Archdiocese of Baltimore unveiled a display of six Black sainthood candidates in its lobby at the Catholic Center in Baltimore Nov. 7.

Mass to honor six Black sainthood candidates

October 26, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

For the second consecutive year, St. Ann in East Baltimore will host a special All Saints Day Mass Nov. 1 that will offer prayers for the canonization causes of six Black Americans.

Cardinal Gregory stresses need for believers to fight against racism

October 20, 2022
By Richard Szczepanowski
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

atholics, and all people of faith, must engage in the “critically important work” of fighting injustice, racism and other societal ills that prevent people from living in peace, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said in an Oct. 13 address at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

Seminar panelists: Clergy abuse has scarred minority Catholic communities

October 7, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

The image of a white victim does not tell the complete story of clergy sexual abuse in the United States, according to a number of panelists during an Oct. 5 online forum titled “Neglected Voices in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.”

Catholic sisters, organizations call efforts to suppress voting a ‘sin’

September 29, 2022
By Rhina Guidos
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News

Organizations led by women religious in the U.S., as well as other Catholic institutions, denounced those who threaten democracy and efforts that make it difficult for some U.S. citizens to vote.

Pilgrims mark anniversary of national shrine’s Our Mother of Africa Chapel

September 25, 2022
By Samantha Smith
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

The National Black Catholic Congress hosted a pilgrimage celebration to the Our Mother of Africa Chapel.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Black Catholic Nuns

July 11, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Radio Interview

In “Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle,” Dr. Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States. We speak with Dr. Williams about what inspired her to write this history and what she learned in her extensive research, which included a look at the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence.

Actor is ‘transformed’ by portraying Father Tolton in theater production

July 8, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

After nearly 300 performances of “Tolton: From Slave to Priest,” actor Jim Coleman said his life has been transformed.

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