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Racial Justice

Broglio: Reflect on Rev. King’s ‘rallying cry’ to confront today’s ‘evils of racism’

January 15, 2024
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

The Jan. 15 federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a time to “pause and reflect” on his “indelible legacy” and “his rallying cry in the pursuit of justice and peace,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement.

Though retired, Bishop Perry will continue to lead USCCB’s anti-racism committee

November 14, 2023
By Maria Wiering
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Despite his Sept. 25 retirement as a Chicago auxiliary, Bishop Joseph N. Perry may continue to serve as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, completing the term he began in May.

Baltimore group advocates for “saintly six” in Rome

November 14, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

The potential saints in question include one with ties to Baltimore, Mother Mary Lange, who has the title “venerable,” the founder of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, the world’s first sustained religious community for Black women.

Mass marks centennial of founding of first seminary in U.S. for Black seminarians

November 9, 2023
By Terrance Dickson
OSV News
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

The first four African Americans to be ordained Catholic priests at St. Augustine Seminary in Mississippi in 1934 “stood tall in the midst of segregated times,” said retired Bishop J. Terry Steib of Memphis, Tenn.

St. Mary’s Cemetery, resting place to enslaved people, will undergo revitalization

November 7, 2023
By Kyle Taylor
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

At St. Mary’s Cemetery in Howard County, a project is underway to revitalize the final resting place of enslaved people.

Archdiocese expands research on cemeteries of enslaved population

November 7, 2023
By Kyle Taylor
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

In recent months, several cemeteries at parishes in the archdiocese have been discovered to have been the final resting place of enslaved people.

Long overdue: After 191 years, Oblate Sisters honored for heroic ministry during cholera epidemic

October 31, 2023
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

The Baltimore City Council passed a resolution Oct. 30 honoring the Oblate Sisters of Providence for their 194 years of service. The resolution, supported by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, was presented on the 191st anniversary of the death of Oblate Sister Anthony Duchemin. Sister Anthony cared for Baltimore Archbishop James Whitfield when he was struck with the disease.

Descendants retrace lives of ancestors enslaved by Jesuits at site of St. Inigoes plantation in Southern Maryland

September 12, 2023
By Mark Zimmermann
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

When Jeremy Alexander found out in 2016 about his family’s connection to slavery and the Jesuits he was sitting at his desk at work at Georgetown University, the institution connected to the story of his ancestors’ bondage and separation and their descendants’ ultimate reunion.

Catholic student center at Washington’s Howard University named for Sister Thea Bowman

September 6, 2023
By Mark Zimmermann
OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Racial Justice, Saints, World News

On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in the nation’s capital, noted that the campus ministry program there was making history of its own, with the blessing and dedication of its new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center.

Descendants of people enslaved and sold by the Jesuits in 1838 reunite for family reunion in Southern Maryland

September 5, 2023
By Mark Zimmermann
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

The Reclamation Project’s Southern Maryland GU272 – Jesuit Enslaved Descendant Gathering over the Labor Day weekend drew hundreds of people who, in addition to touring the plantations and historic churches in that region, also gathered at St. Mary’s College in St. Mary’s City for presentations from scholars and testimonies from fellow descendants.

60 years after March on Washington, Georgetown panel says MLK’s dream yet unfulfilled

September 1, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Sixty years after the March on Washington, there is still work to be done to make the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality, a Georgetown University panel said Aug. 28.

Archdiocese of Baltimore continues sponsorship of HBCU Week on Maryland Public Television

August 31, 2023
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Racial Justice

For the second straight year, the archdiocese and MPT will support programming that celebrates the history, culture and innovations of HBCUs in the area and across the nation. HBCU Week on MPT begins Sept. 4 and airs through Sept. 10. 

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